Oct 13, 2021
To bear witness
Published in Ground Zero, October 2021. “We keep threatening to unleash these bombs... Most of us have forgotten what we're capable of."
Aug 10, 2021
Conversation: J. Robert Oppenheimer and Setsuko Thurlow
A “conversation”: J. Robert Oppenheimer's report on nuclear effects and Setsuko Thurlow’s Nobel Peace Prize speech on abolishing nukes
Jul 22, 2021
It starts with me
How I and the other 7 billion of us on the planet now can prevent the worst effects of climate change.
May 25, 2021
How to just do it
I began musing here about growing older with an untested sense of optimism. I have a fresh appreciation for how hard that is.
Mar 19, 2021
Black Swan
March 11, 2011: Fukushima nuclear plant systems detected an earthquake. The reactors automatically shut down and emergency diesel...
Dec 12, 2020
Chewing on aging and ageism
What’s your image of a millennial? A coffee shop patron with an open laptop, budding professional or struggling freelance artist—each...
Nov 29, 2020
I read the news today, oh boy
2020 reminds me of the extended, dissonant orchestral ascent of Lennon/McCartney’s A Day in the Life.
Sep 12, 2020
The air is yellow
If we thought the covid-black lives-election trifecta couldn’t get more surreal, we weren’t listening to the climate science warnings
Sep 1, 2020
The beauty and the crone
Normally, I see myself from the inside looking out. Until I happen on a mirror—I hardly recognize me from the outside looking in. If it...
Aug 6, 2020
Black Rain 2020
Memorializing the words of Taeko Teramae, age 15 when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She was 0.5 km from the hypocenter.