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Floods and Shimmers and Survival of the Species, Oh My!
C.G. Jung famously wrote, “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” And if ever there was a time to shine what Joni Mitchell called our "little lights" into the darkness, this is it. It seems that at any...
When the Earth Shakes
The grim death toll from the continuing temblors impacting Turkey and Syria has surpassed 47,000, and by all accounts it will continue to rise. Those of us living atop a hundred, intersecting earthquake faults in SoCal continue to shudder, pray for our sisters and...
HAPPY TRAILS TO YOU
As 2022 moves toward its close, I find myself reflecting on endings—heightened at this moment by the recent passing of my dear cousin Tom. (I should say that WE lost him, as Tom is being mourned by family and friends across the globe. He touched many lives. He was...
The Mysterious Composition of Tears Has Arrived!
I’m thrilled to announce the birth of my latest creative baby! A sequel to The Fleur Trilogy, The Mysterious Composition of Tears is the first book of the series, The Further Adventures of Fleur. From her youngest years—skipping and flapping and “butterfly...
Doctor Our Eyes
It's been a hell of a year. Or two. Or five. The pandemic continues to spin out new variations, and we humans continue to squabble, sometimes viciously, over masks/no masks, vaccines/anti-vax. Pretty ludicrous, given that vaccines alone have saved over 2.2 million...
Sheathing the Scissorhands
In 1990, director Tim Burton released Edward Scissorhands, a fantasy film he co-wrote with Caroline Thompson, adapted from a story he'd penned based on his own lonely and disconnected childhood. Filmed with Burton's marvelously whimsical touch, the story relates...
My Post-Traumatic Chicken Disorder- March 20, 2021
One day this past January, chuffed about having received my first Moderna vaccine the previous morning, and undoubtedly a little woozier than I realized, I had a shocking encounter with a flock of chickens. (Cue Jaws/Land Shark theme music from Saturday Night Live,...
To Our Human Family… With Love and Sorrow
Just this morning it occurred to me that I’ve been so busy following the primaries and anxiously researching the coronavirus that I’ve barely spent a minute reflecting on the nearly 5,000 people worldwide who’ve already succumbed to that disease. Let alone their many...
Chasing Eve! Connected at the Root and Down to the Bone
Welcome to the sprawling streets of Los Angeles, where celebrity sightings are commonplace—at least in some communities on the Westside—and homeless encampments maintain a presence just about everywhere else. We may not be as compact as our tech-haven sister to the...
Birth and Death… and Birth Again
My brother Gene passed into the Great Mystery a few days ago. I feel like I've lost a limb. Dr. Eugene Frederick Karson was born on October 23rd, 1935. A brilliant, athletic, consistently curious, and compassionate man, he was my idol, my inspiration, my colleague in...