“Claire Bateman, the dark-haired American woman of a certain age who sometimes sits across from me discussing current events and the state of the union bears no resemblance at all to the universe-sized,…

“The skies here in the extreme south of our planet are different from those anywhere else I have ever seen. There is something unaccountably vivid and luminous about the atmosphere, as if we…

“As a founding member of the AAAAAA, the American Association Against Acronym Abuse Anonymous, I ask your forgiveness for the epigraph above. I could not resist. The AAAAAA, which operates out of my…

“The Lost Coast remains one of the most untouched and remote areas of California’s North Coast. It earned its name in the 1930s when steep terrain and high construction costs made it impractical…

“As a Yoga teacher (which I am), I accept that negative chatter is contrary to the teachings of ahimsa, or non-harming. But if a swear word is screamed in a forest and no…

“At times, it seems like every single thing about the United States government under Donald Trump has become so toilet-licking, bug-chewing, propaganda-chugging stupid, that it’s nearly impossible to target an attack or mobilize…

“Certainly, the days are getting longer, but what I especially cherish is the change in the light, itself. It has a different quality from the low-angled blue-tinted light of winter. As the sun’s…

“We are rapidly heating the temperature of the only planet in the universe known with certainty to support life. Deniers of anthropogenic climate change take note: In so doing, we are causing shifts in…

“When I began writing poems about my parents’ deaths, which happened three months apart, it was difficult to write anything. It was especially difficult to write grief poems and want them to be…

“It all began on a tennis court in the late 1980s. I was co-editing a magazine for a Greek hotel chain and, since we were writing most of the articles ourselves under pseudonyms,…