This summer I went to see a movie in the theater. This was sort of a big deal for me because, between one thing and another, I hadn’t been to a movie theater in many years. (Also, the last movie I saw in a theater was…ah…disappointing. (IT WILL LIVE FOREVER IN MY MIND IN INFAMY!)) But I saw that Twisters was in theaters, and a) an action movie is usually a safe bet at a theater—the big screen makes action…
Warning: This post contains thoughts about a big, existential sort of topic, triggered, in part but not in total, by the recent devastating fires in Maui. At the moment, I am able to approach it with curiosity, but that’s certainly not always the case, and it might not be the case for you right now. If you don’t want to be thinking about climate change and other slow-moving disasters, and what some of the potential follow-on affects might be, even…
content warning: Marshall fire, community disasters, evacuation In my very first blog post, I mentioned that starting this blog was a sort-of resolution I made at the beginning of 2022 after the Marshall fire. This was a big fire that happened in my home town right after Christmas. We had been having a very warm, very dry winter up until that point, and that day it was very windy (very windy for a place where they test wind turbines because…