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The New York Times couldn’t have said it any better than their 2007 article title “It’s Lonesome in This Old Town, Until You Go Underground.” At first I thought it was just me—self-employed, on [...]

Let’s recap: 1 new flash fiction per day, 1 Texas-based blog post per day, 1 Houston-inspired photo per day, conversations about art with the painter, our shared studio space (shown here), and [...]

I made a pilgrimage this morning to the Post Rice Lofts, formerly the historic Rice Hotel. On the corner of Main and Texas Streets, just a 15-minute walk from our studio, this building had [...]

It takes almost two weeks, but it happens nonetheless. The heat, the trash, the homelessness, the prison, the lack of safety…Houston hits me like a two-ton truck. I can’t leave the studio at [...]

What can I say other than the fact that I felt almost moved to tears? Picture wide-eyed-me scuffing along the sidewalk of the fourth largest city in the country. I can’t stop staring at the [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, there’s something you should know about. Many decades ago a rare and almost forgotten creature made its brief debut in Texas history: the cattalo. That’s [...]

Ok, so let’s talk about this–the collaboration. I’ve been playing around with flash fictions on minor urban catastrophes in fits and starts. Last spring I wrote 17 of them. [...]

[Buffalo Bayou, Houston, TX] According to Buffalo Bayou Partnership, this 52-mile waterway “is the nation’s number one port in foreign cargo and one of the largest ports in the [...]

At first I questioned myself: Shortness of breath? Extreme fatigue by 8 o’ clock a night? My first four days in Houston, I walked no more than fifty feet outdoors at a time, the air hitting me [...]