CITY OF DUST

I had a dream about you and ghosts. The ghosts were fierce and dangerous and I needed you to help me fight them. In the dream, time was...

I was re-reading some old posts the other day, something I don’t do very often, and was struck by how often over the last 5 years I was le...

We were walking around Grass Lake, a walk we’d done many times before, but never quite like this. We hadn’t seen each other in over a mon...

I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age and I never met her. One day sh...

The train from Zagreb passes through a landscape that seems unlike anyplace else I’ve visited in Western Europe. I don’t recognize the name...

Alright, so I'm doing an utterly terrible job of writing about my travels. It's just too hard to sit down in front of a computer an...

I know I've done a terrible job of posting lately and I haven't even gotten around to Part III of this desert saga I've been w...

I turned away from the risen sun now hanging blood red before me and thought of a time--it now hardly seemed to have been my life--when I ...

As night gave way to the first light of dawn, Tony pointed his .45 at the horizon and emptied the cartridge. But the sun kept rising, day...

It’s like going to sleep not caring if you wake up. Here’s to one more endless night in a motel at the end of the world with nothing but ...

This is the last night you’ll ever drive these dirt roads. The sun sets behind you and the mountains are cooling, darkening to a deeper bl...

ANSWERING MACHINE, Pt. II - I call your answering machine just to hear your voice. Sometimes I call nine or ten times a day. Most of the t...

Well, I guess you can't accuse me of overdoing it with posts these days. But it's quality not quantity, right? Or something like ...

Yeah, posts are few and far between. Not much I can do about that except stop making promises and further alienate the three people that ...

We step out of the dusty S-10 at the end of an old logging road in Sequatchie County, Tennessee. The surrounding landscape is blasted, ju...