Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
Landscapes
French Polynesia, Fall 2019 (Part 3-Fakarava)
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Rangiroa to Fakarava A short afternoon flight to Fakarava and a need to stay out of the water » Read more
French Polynesia, September 2019 (Part 2-Rangiroa)
Friday, September 27, 2019 Rurutu to Tahiti to Rangiroa This travel day began early, at 5:45 am, with Greg’s voice in the » Read more
French Polynesia, September 2019 (Part 1-Tahiti & Rurutu)
Thursday, September 19-Friday, September 20, 2019 Tahiti In July 2018, driving home from LAX from our first trip to French Polynesia (FP), » Read more
To Hell and Back: Hadestown and a medical maelstrom with Mama (April-June, 2019)
The soundtrack for spring was Hadestown, a folk operatic musical reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Back in December, on a » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival 2019: Silver Anniversary
Overheard at the start of this year’s Sedona International Film Festival, directed to festival director Patrick Schweiss: “Is this a good film? ‘Cause » Read more
Groupers galore: French Polynesia, June 2018 (Part 2-Fakarava)
Thursday, June 20, 2018 Our first morning in Fakarava aboard the Aqua Tiki II was the usual chaos of trying to synchronize » Read more
Ravishing Rangiroa: French Polynesia, June 2018 (Part 1)
Saturday, June 16, 2018 What a long time in coming: sitting on a thin strip of land in the middle of the » Read more
Labor Day, 2018: Back to the kelp forest
Friday, August 31, 2018 The last several summers were marked with a tinge of regret. How could another year be passing without » Read more
Wintry Japan: February 2018 (Part 8-Mount Fuji)
In my Michel Thomas Japanese course on CD, a phrase I learned was appropo: Nihon ni ittara, Fuji-san o mitai desu. (When » Read more