THE NUMBER IS SIX Small if counting pennies, large if ranking a hurricane. Some economists say pennies no longer have much value to us. Some scientists suggest Category Six should be added to the hurricane scale. What’s this rattle against my bones, a storm growing around me? Or…
It’s been more than a decade now since the Paul Klee image I’m thinking of was on display at the museum. When I say image, it’s because I can’t actually…
Good morning! I’ll have some new writing to share next week, but today’s email is for all of the goings-ons swirling around my life right now. This…
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Good morning! I’m sharing a poem I wrote from this thin edge between my belief and my agnosticism. It’s inspired by several people in my life who…
Texting All the Memes Can we talk about the tiny asteroid photo-bombing the Webb telescope? Can we talk about the pet raccoon that loves making…
Maybe it has something to do with the complete lack of an object, no specific image that I can recognize, no hard-edged shape that I am responding to…
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Hi there! I took some time off from The Thread. But today, it’s back. Who knows what’s in store week to week. But here we go! I offer an essay today…
Haver: Verb. Scottish. To talk foolishly; to babble; to hem and haw. Don havered on. Also, Havers: Interjection. Scottish. Synonymous with Nonsense…
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