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My new short story: “Wednesday’s Road”
June 6, 2022 “Wednesday’s Road,” just published by Flora Fiction, is about a once-in-a-lifetime trip in a brand-new electric car. Don’t worry: it’s not an advertisement for Tesla or any other EV. It’s about the choices we make when the journey is growing short and we hope to reach the destination on our own terms.… Read more
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The graduation speech I’ll never give
June 4, 2022 Greetings to the Class of 2022! I’m not conceited enough to think you’ll read this, because blogs are relics from around 2000 B.S. (Before Smartphones), which is also before y’all were born. However, I’m too lazy to break up this post into TikTok videos, and since this month marks the 50th anniversary… Read more
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A pandemic diary: Last call
May 18, 2022 Booster number two is in. Unlike the other shots, this one brought no particular sense of relief, hope, or civic duty. Instead, I had short-lived but tangible side effects: a sudden lethargy and weariness in my bones, which sums up how I feel about the pandemic in general. Two years on, the… Read more
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A pandemic diary: Minority report
April 27, 2022 I’m a straight white guy, yet belong to what may be the biggest minority group in the country: those who’ve never been infected with the coronavirus. According to new data based on tens of thousands of blood samples, almost 60 percent of us have caught Covid at least once. That figure is… Read more
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Stopping the real steal
April 16, 2022 Time, time time, see what’s become of meWhile I looked around for my possibilitiesI was so hard to please – Paul Simon, A Hazy Shade of Winter In Tony Hillerman’s spellbinding mystery “A Thief of Time,” the thief is one who loots artifacts, pieces of the past, from a Native American burial… Read more
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A pandemic diary: The colors that give me the blues
April 1, 2022 UPDATE / CORRECTION, April 2: It appear that at least part of the local case surge discussed below is from a batch of previously unreported tests administered in January. I’ve changed the text to reflect this info and added a link with details. I apologize for passing along any incorrect information. According… Read more
Stories from the South and the subconscious