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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 [...]

I’ve never created an audio file before, but the voice came to me so strongly when I sat down to write this evening, that I got a notion to record the post. Blogger doesn’t allow [...]

Dear Texas, Since it looks like we’ll be spending time together this fall, I thought I should introduce myself. You’ll know me first and foremost by my car, THE CLAW, which will cross [...]

I took some time this afternoon to finish Phase 1 of readying THE CLAW for the road. By now, I have the routine down and it starts at a local car wash where I make fine use of 75-cent power-vacs. [...]

About ten days. I’ve got about ten days before the long, hot drive to Texas (via Bloomington, via Fayetteville) and that means ten days to make use of speedy Internet, an on campus post office, [...]