a LIGHTer aura

I recently spent a restorative holiday in Vancouver, BC, that involved several romps up and over rocks along pristine trails in lush mountains among trees that touched the sky. I didn’t watch the news, even once. After I returned home, walking on the treadmill, I listened to Trevor Noah mention on his podcast that someoneContinue reading “a LIGHTer aura”

EARTH day

[3-min read] Was it middle school when I first learned that the earth wouldn’t exist after the death of the sun? Back then—in the early 1980s—and for several years after hearing that apocalyptic fact, I assumed human beings could still be earth inhabitants on the very day the sun died. I had imagined what thatContinue reading “EARTH day”

pOLar

[3-min read] “It’s not that bad,” a passerby shamed Today Show meteorologist Dylan Dreyer. Wearing multiple layers of winterwear, Dreyer was reporting from sunny Minneapolis. In her defense, a Polar Vortex had dipped the temperature to minus-something, minus 50 with the windchill factor. From my cozy couch in Albuquerque, I watched in wonder and thought,Continue reading “pOLar”