The Thought Chronicles

A peek of "Al Khazneh," the Treasury, from the Siq Swirling red sandstone walls are eye-candy every step of the way...

  The stars are the trees: Sespe Wilderness, Ojai CA She is made up of stars too: Arya dreams of food Mountains are stars, star...

I'm a minion on Mt. Rainier! Larry about to show me how it is done. Arresting myself. Self-arrest happens on flat lan...

I wake to the chirping of midnight crickets. Your head is pressed against my shoulder; we breathe together, in and out, in and out. We...

Sunset over Wadi Rum, Jordan, 2007 The light from my headlamp threw the shadow of a lurking lizard onto the wall and made hi...

Running around at a healthy weight.   Not tiny; fortunate for these muscles. He loves me for everything that I am, and all that I ...

 Training ruck... Zoom in; this is what it looks like to stare failure (or my I-phone) right in its dirty face! Let's talk a...

Me checking on students in writing class; Kabul Education University 2011 Award ceremony Kabul Education University (me in the gre...

At the same time over 12,000 acres of land was on fire in the Sequoia National Forest last summer, my life was burning to...