• Ella and the Art of Safety

    I’ve written lot about my chickens, how they burst into my life and insisted on teaching me to expand, to grow, to learn to love, to learn to change, to learn to trust, to learn to accept, to heal. Each of them fixed a beady eye on me and demanded that I evolve. When they arrived, a skinny, scabby, shabby, scrawny huddle…

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Vulcan 607: the antithesis of self-improvement

One thing I love about Gary is his predictability, especially in the joke department. Whenever I mention book-club to Gary he rushes off and gets his book “Vulcan 607” and shoves it in my face, and demands that I suggest it…