Monthly Archives: April 2015

Sometimes I stop breathing in my sleep. Sometimes I dream I’m under water and can’t make it to the surface. Other times, I’m in a car that’s filling with water or being crushed under mountains of steel. I usually realize I’m dreaming by that point and scream to myself, “Wake […]

People who show up in dreams to help

When I was a kid, I thought all the people I’d known who had died were in heaven, shaking their heads in disappointment every time I did something wrong. I just knew they were thinking, “If only we’d known she was like this while we’d been alive, we wouldn’t have […]

Funny things kids think

Everything alive today has one common ancestor. All plants, all animals, all microbes, share a great great great (going back 3 billion years) grandparent. All things everywhere are my distant cousins. Is this what is meant by Mother Earth? Read about Last universal common ancestor (LUCA). I’m going back to […]

What is Mother Earth?

When I was in 2nd grade, in 1991, our teacher showed us a film about a girl from the year 2050. Her grandmother, telling her about how the world used to be, said, “There was no recycling, no clean energy, cars ran on non-renewable fossil fuels, and there were coal […]

Earth is on loan

Last night, it was very cold outside, and a homeless man who looked like Jim Morrison came to the door. He was being chased by some rabid raccoons, but I wouldn’t let him in. I had a decorative scarecrow hanging on the door, and he asked if he could have […]

Jim Morrison?