“Can” Doesn’t Mean “Should”
I expect only a minuscule fraction of the living who quote Thomas Wolfe’s pronouncement that “You can’t go home again” have ever read the actual novel. I haven’t. Probably should, […]
Not Quite Out of My Mind
Yet. But I’m working on it. Y’all may have noticed (if you’ve been paying attention) that I’ve been a bit off kilter for a while. Kilter – from the English […]
“I hear there will be goats…”
We wanted to get there a few minutes early, because we suspected there’d be a crowd. Crowds are still a bit unnerving in this peri-pandemic time, but we weren’t going […]
The Grind
“The act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.” -Madeleine Albright [Warning: whiny, privileged rant ahead.] I have so little in life to complain about. […]
Snow Day
I’ve written before that the cruel lie of being self-employed is that you can take a day off whenever you want; the brutal truth is that you never do. Well, […]
Rolling Home
Home now, but I suppose I shouldn’t have signed off before I got to the bits of the travel that actually instigated the whole roadtrip south. I suppose travelogues are […]
And now for something a bit less intense…
We bolted south and west from Slab City mid-afternoon, zigzagging our way along the long rectilinear grid of roads that separate vast irrigated fields of alfalfa, artichoke, chard and bob […]
First Church of the Chocolate Martini, and Other Bystanders to the Apocalypse
R. Crumb’s famous “A Short History of America” has a lesser-known epilogue of three possible futures: one eco-friendly, one high tech, and one post-apocalyptic. I believe yesterday we spent some […]
Day Off
We dropped back down into cell service after a couple of days in Joshua Tree with plans to head down the east side of the Salton Sea and pay a […]
The Orca
The usual riddle is What’s big, black and white, and drives like a whale? But that’s a little deceptive – even though Devon has owned the Orca a bit over […]
David Pablo Cohn 