Being Homesick
This recovery from the wildfire that ate our house, our neighbors houses and a thousand acres around us is exhausting. …
Category Archives: Bittersweet Reflections
Voting Based on Where You Cannot Live
We went to our usual polling place today. It was eerie because so much of our district was burned or …
Scavenger Hunt to Treasure Trove
Immediately after we lost our house to the fire, I found four plastic cups in the back of our van. …
Social Rituals and Traumatic Stress
This is the 23rd year in a row that I have attended the annual professional meeting of the International Society …
Forty Days and Forty Nights
Forty days and forty nights. Forty is a mystical number in many spiritual writings. One Greek scholar told me that …
The Saddest Day
I cannot tell if today or the first time I saw the rubble of my house was the saddest. The …
Returning Home
Tonight is the third time that I have returned to our temporary house from a trip. Thankfully it was over …
Waiting
Waiting. We spend our lives waiting. We wait to have time to rest, we wait to have time to play, …
Understanding Insurance Companies in a Whole New and Positive Way
Today was a day of insurance efforts. I spent time working on the policy documentation, the personal property inventory and …
Writing and Reading
Audio post Writing and Reading Oct 2 2012 Today I recorded and posted some of the stories in this blog. …
Building One Home 