H20

June 30, 2022 2

Drink

The parable reads like a riddle: two raccoons walked into a yard, looking for a drink . . . (For an immediate [...]

June 1, 2022 0

Parents

A tough time for parents. So said Buddhist instructor Sylvia Boorstein in a dharma class over Memorial Day weekend. Not that it has ever been easy. [...]

May 1, 2022 0

Cooling

. . . but only God can make a tree. So said American poet Joyce Kilmer in 1914, four years before his death in the battle of Ourcq southwest of Paris. [...]

April 1, 2022 5

Cleaning

I was going to write about spring cleaning today, as (per writer Candor McNair) “dust bunnies are [...]

March 9, 2022 2

Hydropolitics

(Profits from my book sales this month—and for the foreseeable future—will benefit UNICEF, specifically [...]

February 14, 2022 6

Love

So many ways to love. And so many entities: people and animals and objects. This being an H2O blog, maybe [...]

December 31, 2021 0

Frames

Sometimes, in writing, we use a technique known as framing. We book-end a story between a beginning and [...]

November 21, 2021 2

Giving

This time last year, my brother Jon and I had just begun cleaning personal belongings out of my father’s [...]

October 31, 2021 8

Haunted

Nothing in the world is truly separate, say the physicists and Zen priests, all of us borderless entities of [...]

July 22, 2021 2

“Swimming Grand Canyon is a most unusual take on the place, contained in quirky poems from Lawton’s life on her way downstream . . . Lives loved, loves lost, detours, and roads not taken. Her writing is beautiful and rich. Each poem is carefully crafted, and each line points directly to its target. Metaphors for our lives burst into our consciousness and deepen our own experience. Every poem is an unexpected gem, its own universe. Whatever you think these poems will be—they are not that.” —Christopher Brown [...]