Surviving Within Civilization

I found myself standing at the counter returning a book to the Spooner Memorial Library yesterday. The book I was returning, like usual,...

We're at The Prime Bar and Restaurant in Trego WI. It’s Mother's day morning. I'm seated at the head of a long table. Sitting a...

Sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by books, bookmarks, and notebooks. Enjoying the silence, except for the hum of the old freezer. Eve...

The other day, while delivering a package to a customer, I told him I admired his statue of the Buddha that sat in a grove of pines just out...

I was thinking of Derrick Jensen's book "Walking on Water," which does a really good job laying bare the effects of compulsory...

I wrote this poem this morning. There is no form to it. The only form I know and have practiced is the haiku. I've had fun with that so ...

I just got done being sprayed with spit. Somehow the morning conversation between my 3 kids led into snow leopards. Sophia, my daughter of 4...