WayBack Machine

WayBack Machine

IWSG February 5 question: Is there a story or book you’ve written that you wish you could change? This year’s promise began unraveling soon after it began. In near-simultaneous calamities, massive fires raged through over 12,000 structures in two large...
January 7 was not a good day… for me and many

January 7 was not a good day… for me and many

Four weeks ago at around 4:00 p.m., my health mythology about my ongoing involuntary muscle spasms blew up. A co-occurring disaster, the massive, multiple fires in LA County blew up almost simultaneously. Going forward for me as an individual would never be the same,...
Stay Safe!

Stay Safe!

“Stay safe!” Family members in Elsewhere USA universally said as they checked on our proximity to the Armageddon-like fires on the news. I know they meant well, but they’re unable to comprehend the immensity and score, no matter how many metrics I...
January 7 was not a good day… for me and many

Paradise is Not on the Menu

Grace turned off the water tap after she’d effectively soaped both palms. The Camp Fire was 100% disaster and fury—marching across Butte County, CA as if lit by Sherman in his scorched earth policy that helped to end the Civil War—so she focused on the small. After...