The American West: Big trees, big rocks, big holes, little thoughts

August 31, 2014 in North America, Travelogue, United States

In the American west I remember how big the world is. How insignificant I am on her skin. What a blip on the radar of geologic time humanity is. How […]

San Francisco: On friends, poetry & breaking and entering (among other things!)

August 21, 2014 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Our little apartment is not in a great part of town. We’re upstairs from a hispanic daycare that seems to be closed for the summer and sandwiched between a dental […]

On redwoods & rope swings: Northern California

August 16, 2014 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Waking in a tent is a womb-like experience. Or perhaps more like that of metamorphosis, in which I am protected from the outer world by a thin veil and the […]

My 40th birthday: On happiness & rebirth

August 7, 2014 in North America, Travelogue, United States

Today I awoke in a house full of love. A house filled with friends and family, in the mountains of Washington, on the shore of the Hood River. A beautiful […]

Tempus Fugit: In which Hannah turns 18

August 4, 2014 in North America, Travelogue

    As I sit to write this you are floating in the bay in front of Uncle Josh’s house, slipping out across the surface of the black blue sea […]