CITY OF DUST

( CONTINUED ): When I stopped by the trailer I saw it'd been empty for some time. Weeds were grown-up in the yard, a rusted wagon that...

My mama’s name was Mary and my pa’s was Joseph, but I don’t believe my conception would’ve been immaculate. When I think about it, I imagi...

I've developed a pilonidal cyst . I'll spare you the gory details, but part of my treatment is soaking in warm water and trying to...

It’s nearly dusk and the sand makes it difficult to walk. You don’t know where you are. The mosquitoes swarm and you slap at them blindly,...

Las Vegas, Nevada: 117 degrees F. Death Valley, California: 129 degrees F. My old home, Augusta, Georgia: 100 degrees F (heat index=110). ...

The land begins to fall away, slowly at first, then more quickly. At ever-increasing intervals patches of dark blue flash off the horizon,...

It’s 7AM and I’d like to be somewhere else. Instead, I’m standing behind the geology building on the campus of a Big 10 University. It’s S...

"Hey, remember Steve McQueen? Bullitt ?!" I look over at the man on the next bench. I can see that he's tall and missing sev...

It was night. The desert spread out in all directions. A darkness had fallen so thick that he could no longer see his own feet as they moved...

On a wall of the Holocaust Memorial in Washington Park, amongst the pine trees which overlook the city of Portland, Oregon, a short verse ...

On September 16, 2004, Hurricane Ivan slammed into the Gulf Coast of the United States. The Category 3 hurricane had lost some force by th...

The icon. The hero. The superstar. The one who is everything we desire to be, yet cannot be. Will never be. In kinder, gentler times, we a...

FROM GALWAY TO GRACELAND: Oh, she dressed in the dark and she whispered amen; She was pretty in pink like a young girl again; Twenty years...

"(St. Louis Cemetery #1) is the mother cemetery...the Vieux Carré of the dead; as confused and closely packed a quarter as the living m...

The first time I visited New Orleans the desk clerk at the hotel I was staying at took my map from me, then drew a thick, dark circle arou...

Sometimes things just don't work out. The interstate is built 20 miles to the east. There's no money coming in. You can't cove...

I don't know what it is about old neon signs that I find so romantic. Of course, neon is best late at night, in a light rain, the brig...