Love in the Time of Towers

I’m writing a book (yes, another one, this time for Red Wheel/Weiser) so the shelter-in-place order from the governor gave me at-home time to write. And to garden. And to cook. And to focus on the maddening news about the global pandemic that has swept over us....

Birthday in the Time of Towers

My birthday was Friday and throughout the week, I posted observations on each day. Here’s Sunday’s, which you may find interesting. The Sunday shows brought me a frisson of…something. So I have come before you, weakened by my hedonism, to say this to...

The Tower Time Documents, Uncut

Nota bene–these are the Tower Time essays as they are right now. Some are rough, some short, some rambling. I offer them here in one place for those new readers who are curious and for those of you who asked to see them all in one place. I hope you find them...

Lighting Signal Fires in Tower Time

I’ve written rather a lot about Tower Time. For Cassandra figures like me, there is nothing satisfying about seeing visions come to fruition. We are experiencing the roiling change, the fear, the uncertainty that is almost programmatic in this enormous shift....

Tower Time, Document Two: Going to Ground

Tower Time, Document Two Going to Ground Early in the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster–when it was apparent that the problem would not be solved quickly–a small group of women gathered in the small Temple. They brought rum and watermelon and the room soon...