The Agnostics

"Who knows if there's a God? There's us, now, and caterpillars and other insects and mulch."

My friend, Wen, wrote a novel and you can read it. The Agnostics won the 2007 Michigan Literary Fiction award. Wendy Rawlings is the author of Come Back Irish and the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. She's also one great pal.

Buy her book for yourself and your family & friends. Those winter holidays are upon us, after all.

Today my son and I took the beasty Bugs up City Creek. We went up the Bonneville Trail hook-up and initially, I didn't want to get so far away from the water. But it felt as if we climbed above the haze. That crappy air is crappier today.

It was gorgeous to be above the city, walking through chaparral. Outside feels strange, the low November angle of the sun, the haze, the draining color and bare trees. Everything looks like winter, but it was 64 degrees today and the sky was so blue.

It's dark out now. Daylight has been saved, or restored, I can't remember how it works exactly. Only that we fell back and now it's dark at 5 pm. A beautiful day.