We are so incredibly lucky. Not only did we have the science and know-how to invent the combustion engine, but our science has evolved to the point where we understand how its screwing up our world. It didn’t have to go that way. We very well could have invented the…

True’s bed is now a tent in the living room. It’s been there for about a month. I drag her out of her sanctuary at 6:10AM on weekdays to drop Tadg at his shuttle for school. She rides on my back to the truck, one part queen, one part wet…

On my way into town the same stump always catches my eye. The winter snows pulled back a month ago, revealing its dark stature against the ocean-spray green of the sprouting understory. It’s the only stump around, surrounded by vital towering pines and cedars. It was once a mighty tree…

“Her body wasn’t strong enough to hold her spirit anymore, so she had to leave…” It’s impossible for me to accept that our beginning came from that end, but it did. I can see us there together, me holding them both in our dirt driveway after they’d just arrived home…

My family has a lot of good stories I may never share. Some because they belong to all of us and are still unfolding, some because they don’t belong to me at all. They belong to my wife, my son, and now my daughter. Today I can say she’s my…

I no longer have the Magic Power Ring of Marriage on my finger. I reached for it with my thumb a bunch of times today, trying to rub it to invoke its power. There’s a legitimacy I felt being married to you, not PC I know, but it was there…

My daughter taught herself how to grieve, or maybe it's better to say her heart reminded her how to grieve. She didn’t have a good model in me, I hold too much in. I cry, but it's often in fits and starts — call it choking up a whole live…

Every few months someone asks me about my late wife's natural burial. People want to know what it was really like. It seems like just as often someone puts out a blog post or news piece on natural burial. I think many of those pieces can lack the intimacy that…

You are barely holding onto the threads of your life. It feels like new energies are erupting out of you almost as quickly as old parts of you are being wrenched off. If that wasn’t bad enough, this has been going on for months or maybe even years. …