April 4th,’18 Anasazi Beans and Sonoran Mesquite Flour Feast for Fools

Welcome… if you click around you’ll find information about my shows and books. Buy a book, book a show. Be sure to surf my digital frontier and message me. The switchboards are open. Wheat-Barley-Rye-Buckwheat-Mesquite Flour Food of the Desert Dwellers Beginning last August my wife and I embarked upon a gastronomic revolution. The idea was […]

March 25, 2018 The Bigger the Dream

Running with the Small Dogs Sunset in the Superstitions not far from Apache Junction, Arizona We rolled out on the road without a wireless telephone or an Automated Teller Machine card. We used such antiquated technologies as American Express cashier checks, wired funds via Western Union, made calls with coins fed into pay phones. Running […]

March 24, 2018 Showtime

Riding with the Wind Working at the legendary Oakland, California Children’s Fairyland this weekend. Two shows each day. Between shows is pictured above. High Plains Drifter ala street performer style

March 14, 2018 Weather Related

You Win a Baby Blue White Leather Interior Cadillac Rain is the sworn enemy of a street performer. Cold wind and ice come in second with unbearable high humidity and heatwaves next. The not too hot, not too cold is supportive of such things as solvency. It is the shoe that is always about to […]

March 13, 2018 Northern Californian Goes Inexplicably South

Welcome to my website. One of my missions is to give voice to what being in California feels like. What is this experience doing to its citizens? What’s happening? What’s this happening happen to feel like? One thing for sure you better plan on driving off hours when everyone else has gotten to work and […]

How’s That Change Thing Working Now?

SMOKING HOT BLAME YOU CAN BELIEVE IN Signed up for the National Park Service going rogue Facebook page this morning. I owe much of my souls most healed aspects to the unfettered, unfiltered quiet time the parks have gifted to my life. To imagine what we need to do is liquidate these national treasures is […]

Left Coast Lifter

Here at work is the Left Coast Lifter. Left Coast a right wing epithet coined to characterize the voting habits of California, Oregon and Washington. We are reliably Liberal. Yesterday was a classic Indian summer day on the San Francisco Bay. This gigantic crane is preparing to hoist into position the last piece of the […]