I am the Lorax
Yesterday I dipped into the deep grief that’s been masked by depression over the last few months. It’s been hard to access my sadness, deeply buried and rarely excavated as […]
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Why I started this blog
I always return from my travels wanting to make my home life more like my travels. To integrate habits like giving myself time to read, explore unknown urban and wild […]
Election or Bloodless Coup
I’ve been depressed since November. I’d been in Europe for the previous 6 months, having reached out several times to friends in the US for reassurance that Trump would not win. I’d […]
Weaving ancestral threads
A few weeks ago I went back to Potomac Maryland to pay my respects to my uncle Bob Cook who had passed away this summer. It was my first visit to […]
Not a Republican
Last night a friend said that Republicans are Democrats who have been robbed and that Democrats are Republicans who have been imprisoned. I woke this morning remembering a time 4 years […]
Ode to One
Last week I rescued three worms that I found while walking a well-trodden trail at Rancho San Antonio. I placed them gingerly to the side, urging them to find sanctuary. One had […]
Lisa Karpinski 