It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks […]


It all started when we came home after a trip out of town. The tranquil homestead we’d left two weeks […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

Note: This post is part of a series on Bali. To start at the beginning, see The Bali Diary: Day 1.] […]

The glass of water on my bedside table hasn’t frozen. Yet. But the evening mist now leaves frosty geometric patterns across […]

But then fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the […]

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. —Don Corleone, The Godfather: Part III Here at the yurt there’s always a […]

If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. —Thich Nhat Hanh In the two years that […]

Look for the bare necessities, the simple bare necessities, Forget about your worries and your strife; I mean the bare […]

After four months in Italy, we’ve finally returned to the yurt. If our first trip out to the property is […]

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, […]

I’m glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. —Chris G. Fall is here. The tourists are gone, the […]

“Oh no, don’t do that,” my mom said when I called to tell her that I’d be staying at the […]

Flowers are the earth laughing. —Ralph Waldo Emerson As the undisputed “Crown of the Continent,” Glacier National Park is grand, […]

Happy Fourth of July! We hope everyone had a great time celebrating 236 years of independence from the Kingdom of […]

The thing about living in a yurt in the middle of nowhere is that every task takes three times longer […]

Without a composting toilet, dry sink, or sufficient source of heat at the yurt yet, we decided to head back […]

Happy 2012! Chris and I just returned from a traditional Austrian Christmas vacation, where we visited Vienna, Prague, and Salzburg. […]