Rafting the Grand Canyon, April-May 2021 (Part 2)
Friday April 30, 2021 Day 4, Cardenas to Trinity Creek Camp, Mile 92 Today was billed as a Big Rapid Day, including » Read more
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New York, we’re back! (March-April 2021)
Saturday, March 27, 2021 New York, back at last! This long-awaited, week-long return to New York after 16 months away flew by. » Read more
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
Yosemite’s elusive firefall: February 2021
Saturday February 20, 2021 From lemons , we opt to make lemonade. This particular week, for the past 10 years, has always » 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
Channel Islands, August 2019
August 20, 2019 Day 1: Santa Barbara Island Was it a good idea to take up cold water diving again? This question » 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
2018 Highlights
2018 was a year in which aging, mortality and illness reared their ugly heads, in the family and our circle of friends. » Read more
Spring bustin’ out allover in NYC: April 2018 (Part 1)
Saturday, April 14, 2018 Spring can be particularly glorious in NYC. Probably the harshness of NY winters makes this contrast inevitable. This » Read more