birth of imagination

16,000 years ago homo sapiens arrive Bluefish Cave in the Yukon, now there was a place you could call home 24,000 years ago. There’s evidence the cave might have been used an ever more distant 40,000 years back in time, North America’s earliest immigrants crossing over from Siberia consolidated their foothold in this North American […]

Playing the Flamingo in Laughlin

Showgirls Twenty-nine years after Mr. Sinatra first played the casinos here, I had finally booked a show (one and done, but better than none) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. I was the juggler on a bill with the Chippendale Dancers and William Wallace Foster, aka. The Fox, “Foster regularly chugged beers on campus […]

the Mcdermitt caldera caper

Whether or not the civilization collapsing climate catastrophe can be averted turns out to be tangled up with the McDermitt caldera.

Mojave desert Drifting

…even if the hired help is never the exact same person they are all desert tough and what you might call a hardboiled egg.

eastern edge of nevada

Spring Valley Wind Farm As batty as this may seem the Spring Valley Wind Farm had to install radar to help prevent unnecessary bat collisions with their turbine blades. Mexican freetail bats it is said can haul ass attaining speeds of 100 mph while flying horizontal to the ground. The nearby Rose Guano Cave hosts […]

Plot Heating up

non·fic·tion non·fic·tion /ˌnänˈfikSH(ə)n/ noun prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people, such as biography or history. Green Hydrogen 100% Carbon Free After wrangling four novels between the covers of a book I’ve learned a thing or two. Fiction is speculative. A novelist isn’t bound to dutifully report a precise biography […]

We’re all Hayduke’s now

I was Hayduke’s stunt double.

Travels without charley

Tourist Services in the Time of the Virus Tuba City in the Navajo Nation is seventy-eight miles northeast of Flagstaff. Twenty years ago, I came through here after an early April snowstorm. A ramshackle convenience store had pull-through sites out behind the building. Cold, road weary, I needed to hook up my trailer to the […]

autumn backroad east

I’m a roadrunner baby Running the southern route adds two-hundred miles to the trip to Denver. Once I’d made Bakersfield, I parked at a truck stop, slept there for the night. Sunday, I made five hundred miles east to Williams, Arizona. A local tipped me off to a free campground operated by the Bureau of […]

Looking for a few ears

All you get is all I’ve got