Lay of the Land

Lay of the Land
A chain link fence transposes in front of a natural space behind. A mountainous landscape with the sun shining on the left third of the sky. The ground is undeveloped and brown-green.

At the Gate

Wheelchairs in wild spaces shouldn’t be an anomaly some thirty years since the Americans with Disabilities Act. Continue reading

Lay of the Land
a multicolored look through a kaleidoscope. A wheel with pink, green, and blue streaks.

Adaptive Joy

Grief lives in the body; crip grief lives in the crip body. And I am working out my crip grief by moving in a crip way on this land, on this trike. Continue reading

Lay of the Land
Bellingham ocean at dusk, blue everywhere, with islands of the Puget Sound in the background.

A Drinkable Beauty

MY HOMETOWN of Bellingham, Washington, is a last corner of the continental United States, a final chew of land before the long drink of the Pacific. We’re bound to the west by Continue reading