You’re either a criminal or you’re not.  You’re either good or you’re bad.  Which are you? But life, as lived, is never so cut and dried.  No one is all one or another – and the complexity is portrayed brilliantly in the new film Pocha (Manifest Destiny) directed by Michael Dwyer, screenplay by Kait McLaughlin.  Northern Baja residents who see …

“The more deeply engaged I have become with horses and the people who love them, the more astonishing my awareness that we are all connected.” Carter Heyward Let’s just say it this way – horses and I have had a fairly complicated relationship through the  years.  As a young girl I had a model horse collection that I loved to …

When I pause to think about it, it was tomatoes that did it to me, really. That first bite of a vine-ripened-fresh-from-the-plantright-outside-the-front-door-onto-the-plate-tomato –it hooked me, caught me, captured me and coaxed me into becoming a gardener myself. “You mean this is what a tomato really tastes like?” I remember saying out loud, to no one in particular. “I never knew.” …

It’s one of my favorite phrases, related to rainwater harvesting – induced meandering.  The premise is simple.  Whenever you can encourage rainwater runoff to slow down, to take a more circuitous route, to wind its way down a hill rather than rush full speed toward the gutter, storm drain, or gully below, you increase the likelihood that this runoff can become …