Corona Dispatch: What’s Important

It’s been a while. I’ve been carrying on as best as I can. The novelty of the pandemic has worn off into a jaded malaise: every day more of the same, every week the dial tipping and tipping a little further into absurdity and chaos. It’s hard to write about it in a way that […]

Birds in Memoriam

Black and White Warbler, 09.18.2018 She was bright yellow and grey and lying on the sidewalk outside my front door. I’d never seen a bird like that before – I was struck by the delicate beauty of this little creature and the fact that she was dead. Traveling south for the winter, she’d had a […]