I am feeding two dogs for ten days. My stepbrother and his boyfriend, along with my other stepbrother and his wife, have gone to Maui for a winter vacation. They complained bitterly – the two men partners, that is – …

16 September 2012 1 Moon 89 Summer 55 Spaceage I sit at the dining table fairly late at night – 10:30 pm – and struggle to write. I used to write more in years gone by, and indeed have always …

I am sorry to say that I will not be making my little great circle trip by train and bus at the end of the month. The conference of writers in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, has been postponed until late June, …

As a boy, and then a young man, I rarely rode on real passenger trains. Once, at three or four, I went with my parents from San Diego to Los Angeles. My mother still laughs about how, at the first …

No way back Turnstyles clatter and clunk pedestrians leaving the U.S. via Twin Gates spun percussion clank clutter clink twisting your Feet across a painted line on concrete p e r c e i v e d between your ears …

OASIS MULEGÉ by Daniel Charles Thomas, 2001. 1. the gringos say there is a myth in el pueblo de Mulegé that you can get trapped here and never leave but it only seems, at first, that snowbirds come back every …

I remember the night I moved to Tijuana. I had planned everything. I would rent a place at the beach. Live for a couple nights in the Gardens motel and find a small apartment for maybe two hundred dollars. As …

I am old enough to remember when Interstate Eight was built over our back-country mountains. Before then, the main route east was what we now call Old Highway 80. That is the highway I recall traveling as a child. One …

17 March 2012 I sit in the dining room – or rather dining area, since there is no wall, per se, between the dining and living room – it is all part of an open space, with windows running along …

One of my on-line friends – if, as is often debated, our so-called “friends” truly are that – but whatever the case, one of my on-line acquaintances commented, on a videologue of mine the other day, “Oh, has your snow …

The airliners drift through the air, in and down across the eastern suburbs of San Diego. They are headed slowly toward the airport, next door to downtown. It is quite odd, having an airport in the center of the city, …

I could scarcely recognize my stepbrother’s boyfriend last Saturday night at our niece’s wedding party. After only a few months, the intense chemotherapy has hit him hard. His entire body is swollen up and his head is turning bald with …

horas de junio a meeting of writers in the desert FOR THE PAST sixteen years on the first weekend in June, Mexican writers and their guests from other countries have gathered in Hermosillo. In the blazing Sonora desert capital, three …