“Kid you got a golden thumb,” declared Cortis Haire. He had picked up the bright-eyed hippie outside of Los Angeles heading north on his pedal to the metal push towards Seattle. Read More »
Dry refrigerated air. Warm bright light. Colors, vivid and organic. Symmetrical stacks of oranges (3 kinds), grapefruit (2 kinds), lemons, limes, apples (5 kinds) and vegetables: Read More »
I always thought I’d drown like Martha did. Thrown overboard with anchors attached, Fighting to breath, discovered six days later, reduced to a skeleton, tangled in a lobster trap.
“Tell me exactly how you did it,” she says.
I covertly look to the right and to the left—as if a Star Trekesque escape pod will suddenly appear and I will Read More »
It’s getting dark when the road curves into Moab. My twenty-two year old daughter is with me on my cross-continent divorce odyssey. Six weeks ago, her dad told me our thirty-year marriage was over and my life feels as stark as the landscape that surrounds us. I’ve made a reservation at a swank place Read More »
