Writer’s Ramble and Riley’s Reappearance
I go to Joe’s farm to fulfill my barter hours and make a new Chinese medicinal tea prescription. To my surprise there are four cars parked at the bottom of the steep driveway, none of which [...]
Back in the River, Finally
At the coffeehouse, which resides on the ground level floor of a three-story 120 year-old log building, it was eighty degrees all afternoon. Inside. That’s with five fans running at a constant, [...]
Full Blown Fuller
I am reading fifty pages a day of Alexandra Fuller’s Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier because I must finish it within five days and then write a commentary on it. So it is only [...]
Scenarios, Abstractions, Ponderings
Sometimes we meet people in little bubbles of our lives, and even though we are trapped in time and space and everything we do seems to have no bearing on the past or future, we feel more free [...]
Let it Rain, Let it Pour
To say it was like cats and dogs would be the understatement of the century. No, not this rain. Not this afternoon. Something more like Niagara Falls evaporating into clouds then traveling 1,200 [...]
Home Sweet Home
I arrive in total darkness, acutely aware that we are only days from a new moon. Everything about the walk from my driveway down the trail to my cabin feels right, except the dryness of the air. [...]
Travel Hell
Trapped in Houston, Texas in some holding pen that Continental Airlines calls “Gate B84C” since last night. Lucked out with a place to stay around 3am. Not so lucky in getting back to [...]
Homeward Bound
It is difficult to know where to begin when I am still clearly in transition. Reeling from only three hours of sleep the last night of residency, even the best espresso I’ve had since Paris [...]
Day Eleven
The end of the residency is anti-climactic. Everyone departs at different intervals, most of us hung-over, to catch flights home or drive long hours into the day back to their families, pets, [...]
