Back By Popular Demand

Here's another life update for those with the desperate desire to receive an update from Idaho. I am still here. I am still breathing in and out most of the time. Yesterday I saw a moth the size of my palm. It looked as though it had just emerged from its cocoon. It was wobbling …

Missive from the Gem State: Part 1

Hello Dear Readers, It has been a while hasn’t it? To summarize: Scout and I left Oakland and have now settled our collective gams in Moscow, Idaho where I intend to live and study for the next three years. Don’t know exactly what Scout will be doing, but my intuition tells me napping will be …

Shelter in Place: Day 11

Now, I am going to share my thoughts on prison and detention centers. I hope that more people now than ever will recognize the inhuman experience that is the United States' system of mass incarceration. Not only is it dehumanizing, immoral, and fundamentally racist, but in the light of the COVID-19 crisis, prisons and detention …