Irises in the Desert?

  The Jim Thompson trail in Sedona, Arizona is a four-mile round trip hike offering up breathtaking views from vantage points of 4800 feet.  Oak Creek’s first settler, Jim Thompson, built the road in order to bring produce from his Oak Creek farm to the residents...

Playing in the Dirt

I first encountered dorodango some five or six years ago, in an art gallery in Santa Fe. The perfectly round ceramic spheres had been glazed, or so I thought, in earth tones of deep rust, rich brown, inky black, ochre. Silent as buddhas, each nestled upon its own...

Retelling the Passover Story

There is a duality to Passover that I never realized until this year. In the weeks leading up to this  holiday celebrating the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt, we are clearing our cabinets, refrigerators and freezers of  any form of bread, pasta, cereal as we make...