These Days Will Come
It takes nine quarters to do a load of her laundry, the older woman whom I have helped every week for a year-and-a-half. Today, I’m worried that I might have to […]
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This is Confidence
Mount Vernon, WA – When I travel alone, I stay in KOA Campgrounds. With anyone else I camp in the woods. My own degrees of safety hold that alone is […]
Are you Caucasian?
A phone call from Mount Vernon, WA to Denver, CO — “Hey Jill, can I ask you a question?” my neighbor girl asked over the phone. She was picking the […]
Conceding the Gold
Dunvegan to Englishtown, NS, via the Cabot Trail – Waking up by the ocean where I could’ve stayed forever, I pack my tent and continue north to the beginning of […]
The Durazno (Peach) Tree
Here’s what I will miss about South 6th Street. My neighbor, Benito, comes over to bring me cilantro seed. He sees me in the dirt with my barn boots on, […]
Craigslist Advertising Experiment
Objective: to write an ad creative enough to sell a 1999 Toyota PreRunner 2WD within 24-hours of posting — posted 26 April 2012 — The rational part of my brain […]
Fishing in the City
The last of the pink salmon were running like mad in Puget Sound and I was hoping to catch my dinner in the city. A friend was meeting up with me, one […]
