Woke up early on Sunday – well, early by Pacific Standard Time – and headed up the hill for a walk; I needed some time alone to consider what I’d […]

Hey – are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? Yeah, sorry – not me. Last year was enough. But a last week, before November had properly started, Tom Wolfe came to […]

It was one of those days. An Indian summer Sunday, up before dawn with just enough that needed to get done to prevent me from feeling like the day was […]

[I actually wrote this months ago, in the middle of summer, but couldn’t bring myself to actually post it.] …. Yes, as I reach for the “publish” button, I’m cringing. […]

“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well” – Henry David Thoreau I do write about myself a lot, don’t […]

Haven’t even written up the last bits of Albuquerque – so much more to tell. What happens to stories that never get told? I seem to worry about that a […]

I think we all must be here for different reasons. The elderly gentleman with the Navy cap and decorations – this bomb may have saved his life, along with those […]

“Remember: all the things really worth doing in life are pretty awful, but the converse isn’t true. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the difference.”   -The Unfinished Book of Parental Wisdom […]

I get the feeling there are going to be a lot of posts over the next month written from the cheap blue leather seats of a Delta Airlines flight. Eastbound, […]

“And if your friends jumped off a cliff, would you too?”Mom, I’m sorry to report that, after all these years, I finally have a definitive answer to that question. Mind […]