Under the Coming of Winter

Under the Coming of Winter

I know it’s only just falling, and I know, too, that I’ll likely be singing a different tune in a matter of weeks. But so far, I have to say: winter is, in many ways, a comfort. This Sunday has me sitting here in my pajamas watching the drear through my...
Still Here: Three Full Months of the Desert

Still Here: Three Full Months of the Desert

Wow hello it is suddenly almost October and I’ve been AWOL since early August. What, you may (or may not) wonder, have I been doing since Florida? Well. I took on a fun, but intense, National Parks project for one of my main clients, which had me pouring 40,000...
Many Happy Returns

Many Happy Returns

I watched a pair of Roseate spoonbills fly over salt flats as I drove up the steep slope of a bridge. I paddleboarded under the effervescent pink blooms of hibiscus flowers on a glassy lake, sunk my body into its bathwater-temperature shallows. I flew out of a red,...