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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 [...]

After my first outing in the city, one thing is clear: I do not have Texas toes. I’m not talking about shape or size. What I’m talking about is the sheer number of women in this city who, by [...]

It’s difficult to be in Texas and overhear discussions about the “illegals” when of course us whiteys were the illegal ones in the first place. Even though Texas was an unimportant compared to [...]

It was a hot 1500 miles to Houston, Texas, but THE CLAW endures and so does its driver. As always, I learned a few things along the way. First, should you find yourself staying in Bloomington, [...]

THE CLAW is on the road: From writers in Interlochen, Michigan to a composer/trombonist in Bloomington, Indiana to a poet in Fayetteville, Arkansas to a painter in Houston, Texas. Join me on [...]

Enter Phase 2 of Texas-prep mode: The Big Sort. We’ve seen this before, folks, and I’m going at it hardcore this week as I stack, sort, donate, shift, break down, mail, and condense. Now that I [...]

I’m antsy and THE CLAW looks at me with a road-lust twinkle in her headlights, so I take her for a spin to the Volvo dealership. They’ve got something I want and it’s been a long time coming. THE [...]

Some days, it is just clouds: the way they gather and shift, bluster like words across my mind’s eye. What is the mind of a cloud? Other days, it is all tone: the way a certain image feels (it’s [...]