These days I find myself not taking the rare treasures in life for granted. I drink only handcrafted small-batch gin; I’ve been gradually removing all paperbacks from my study and replacing with out-of-print rare books (like my well-oiled leather-bound Edgar Allen Poe first editions). Additionally, I now cancel my day’s business when I know that… Read More »
Santa Fe, New Mexico might conjure images of scorching desert, but in January, it can be colder than a cast iron toilet seat in Baffin Bay. It’s a dry cold to be sure, and by midday you find yourself peeling off layers and sometimes getting down to shirtsleeves. It was a particularly cold January in… Read More »
To say that Gregg Allman was an influence on me in younger days would be stating the obvious to those friends and family who know me well. Not just a musical influence, but a writing influence, a traveling influence, a ‘storytelling’ influence. My father, at one point, said a ‘bad influence,’ but that’s another story…… Read More »
They say the past is prologue. Yesterday, as I watched President Trump sign an executive order to nullify years of our nation’s climate-change work and Clean Power Plan, I thought back to the Lakota holy man who called me Grandson. Chief Frank Fools Crow, born at the time of the Wounded Knee Massacre, once taught… Read More »
