Yanamama

We have been relishing warm summery days this week, regardless of the specter of global climate change.  Tonight, however, the wind is blowi...

I am at peace.  For the first time in years, I feel that my country is mine again, and I no longer have to wait for the next incident of hor...

Clocks make me anxious. Their implacable measurement of time creates deadlines I have no way of eluding. Bed time, meal time, time to leav...

Winter stopped by today. We have been graced with a slow fall, drifting from green to yellow and red, with a glorious blue background each ...

I'm having nightmares. Friends being kidnapped and murdered, children being hurt. My sleep is so deep I can't swim up, and the dre...

We have a new dog. This is an exciting development in our household, although Teddy has fit in so well as to make her arrival almost a non-...

V came into my room at five this morning. She's been doing that -- demanding bed space at first light; trying to play games while my ey...