It's the journey, Grasshoppa!

Dreams

Desert Downtown_Salt Flats 2012

Bob Dylan once said that if  "my night dreams could be seen, they would probably put my head in a guillotine.” I know people who put their dreams on Facebook or better yet in group email lists meant for other purposes. Makes the hair on the back … [Read more]

Tip On A Dead Junkie

I  drove across town last night for the first time in weeks. I had been doing that a lot, going to the bar before I scored as if trying to prove that I’m really all right, a bar guy not a fuckin’ addict. Just, you know, maybe a little … [Read more]

Talking Tree Blues

Strange days. That's what it is. Got a note from my first wife, a woman who deserved to build a life with some one who liked her more than I did. Of course at the time I did not know that was the case. Either part. We began falling apart early in … [Read more]

Happy Birthday, Traci

According to Sean the whole island is going to be there. It will be the last chance for the locals to party together before the summer tourist weekend crowd gets there. Traci, the birthday girl will be putting on her usual show. She can be … [Read more]

Facing Up To It

WIFMER/WIHMER 2011

"Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: Man was meant to run." --Percy Cerutty. I am swimming upstream. Come the end of Summer, cool air, touch of Fall, the beginning of the end of things in this cycle, time to take … [Read more]

Waddayagonnado

c'mon day-1

"There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as our running---and nothing quite so savage, and so wild." --Bernd Heinrich. It is no longer a matter of how fast or how far or how fast over how far for me. It used to be that way. It had to … [Read more]