“Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina That April, with long hours of sunlight and buzzing bees in the meadow destined to become my yard, I had vision. While others saw a house rising from four feet of weeds in what once was a…

Hopefully Bringing Vision to Fruition — Right now, or actually about two minutes ago which is kind of right now, I was standing at the screen door of my house watching a thunderstorm forming overhead and the wind hurtling garbage cans toward the bay. It’s my favorite kind of weather: storms over water. It captures something…

With my son’s life in the balance, I made the discovery that began a journey toward understanding addiction — When my son, Sam, boarded a plane to his first rehab, I wanted to kneel and kiss the tarmac. Thank God. I had navigated the powers that be to pluck a sick and broken addict that I loved fiercely from his certain death. …

“I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.” ― Flannery O’Connor For most of my life, I have journaled. In fact, when I was a teenager, I kept two journals: one out on my desk because my best friends and I swapped journals…

How a woman was jailed for fetal loss — Patient to Suspect On January 4, 2020, nineteen-year-old Brittney Poolaw, an Indigenous woman who is a member of the Comanche Nation, walked into Oklahoma’s Comanche County Memorial Hospital after suffering an at-home miscarriage. When questioned, she confessed to using both methamphetamine and marijuana, and subsequent tests at the hospital confirmed her use.

Yes, You Can Reduce that Final Carbon Footprint, But Would You? In an ongoing effort to keep with environmentally friendly practices, Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, just signed legislation allowing terramation, more commonly known as human composting, after death. This decision now allows New Yorkers access to a green burial…

Any Guesses as to What It Might Be? Every year since 2003, Merriam-Webster, the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States and the unofficial highest source of American word use, has selected ten words to sum up each year. …

Yes, Researchers Have Grown A Responsive Brain in a Dish Dubbed Dish Brain, scientists have shown how their recently crafted neural network can play a simple game of Pong, a video game similar to the table game of Ping Pong. …

And It’s Not at All Like Those Zen-ish Videos — I don’t know why I started watching those videos of vanlife. One day they popped up in my feed. I adored the pups in a few so I clicked the like button and suddenly I was awash in vanlife reels. It was like the algorithm went manic. I watched so…