A mild, sugary snow started to fall, tiny, lackadaisical flakes spilling from the gathering skies and tickling the already numb faces. I had been outside three or four hours now, […]

I scrambled up the last few boulders of the butte in the middle of the city, heart still pounding from the exertion, grateful for both the driving Thievery-Corporation-heavy playlist and […]

As the Airbus bolted up into the golden-grey, sepia-toned haze of waning autumn I copped a break from the everyday ruminating and from my perch in a lonely window seat […]

The ground was just enough frost-hardened to make things uncomfortable on my still-gimpy ankle as we trundled out just before dawn to check on the pigs. Geese overhead continued their […]

It was what you might call, if such a thing existed, perfect weather for ping pong. Late afternoon temperatures in the low 60’s and now, just past suppertime, gently dipping […]

It’s a special kind of awful, guilty pleasure to sit in a warm truck on a chilly morning. The kids are out there working the gates, huddled against the cold, […]