Howell Creek Radio

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Radio address for May 12, 2012, about our Original Garden, which doesn’t look like very much compared to the way we imagined it. Tie-ins to…

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Radio address for April 28, 2012, dictated verbatim from the spring wind and rain on the North Shore.

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Radio address for April 21, 2012, in which our quiet, straightforward life keeps me humble by being too much to keep up with, and I hope i…

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Radio address for April 14, 2012: A reading from the first two headings of my Red Book, about Existence and Inexistence, the first two stops…

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Trixie and I make plans to fly or drive all over the continent in every direction, and groundwork for the suburban apiary is contemplated.

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City hall springs to life in a flurry of self-cancelling paperwork, and we listen to the north shore of Lake Superior call us while we bre…

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After the sudden and early thaw, thoughts turn to yard maintenance which does not necessarily include scouring away every trace of unnatural…

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Radio address for Feb 21, 2012, which you will have to listen to for yourself.

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An afternoon spent in the basement, a morning spent in the Basilica.

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Why were the Dark Ages called the Dark Ages? It probably wasn’t because of ignorance, for ignorance persists; much more likely, they were …

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Radio address for June 6: Maybe if you’re denied a pile of money, you’re better able to think outside the box and focus on what matters. Bu…

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Radio address for February 18, 2011: some things not many people seem to know about Niagara Falls.

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What if I am among those that winter separates unto Pluto rather than to Jupiter this year? The summons was to the clearing at midnight, a…

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Radio address for December 8, 2010, a poem I wrote this last Sunday.

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Radio address for December 1, 2010. It is extremely cold and snowy here now. These are just a few glimpses of surviving and micro-thriving in the middle of winte…

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Radio address for October 14, 2010, released a few days late. Have you ever been pathetically but persistently pursued?

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The words ‘orange chocolate’ conjure a mottled, raggled raft of feelings – feelings about things that ought to be simple but ended up bein…

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Written mainly so listeners will have a dim idea of what keeps me away in town these days.

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When we write the story, we sit in the seat of God, and our understanding of God betrays itself too well.

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Radio address for March 27, 2010: a weather report of sorts. Nature always skips skips skips the beat.