Rafting the Grand Canyon: April-May 2021 (Part 1)
The Grand Canyon is a cathedral of stone, wrought by time, pressure and eons of geologic history. I had unfinished business, a » Read more
Archives
2020: A year of clear vision?
Preamble How to sum up 2020? A year so chaotic, full of fear and fury, as to be life-altering, unforgettable and for » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: (Month 3: May 2020)
Saturday, May 2, 2020 According to the calendar, I was to have my hair done and we would have attended a biannual » Read more
Lovely Lake Powell-August 2020
Monday, August 17, 2020 We were nervous about our maiden voyage on Lake Powell. Despite spending so much time diving from and » Read more
New territory: Grand Canyon North Rim, September 2020
Sunday, September 6, 2020 Almost every summer for the past 15 years, a Rimtours mountain biking and camping trip to the North » Read more
Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
Coronavirus countdown: Quarantine dispatches (Month 1: March 2020)
Over the years, especially since starting this blog, I’ve kept notes on what we were seeing, experiencing, thinking, feeling, reading, even eating, » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival: February 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020 For the past decade, the Sedona International Film Festival has occupied a permanent place on our yearly calendar » Read more
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
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