rose in midair

For a year during which I passed two springs, I really have insisted on going to places to test myself against the extreme cold. Armed with ...

Rowan Ricardo Phillips, as told to Words Without Borders : This isn't meant to minimize all of the heartbreak that has taken place in...

the eve of christmas eve involved baking red velvet cookies and eating close to 15 of them, wrapping presents clumsily in foil lined gift wr...

“It’s not enough to say the heart wants what it wants. I think of the ravine, the side dark with pines where we lounged through summer days,...

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women. Kenneth Rexroth

i guess, wherever we are traveling, and in whatever direction, and towards what (a destination? an emotion? power? a goal?)- we all want the...

i wrote to a friend today about the holiday season: as cynical as we all can be about the modern world we live in, and as cheesy as it m...

he wrote to me on the first day I arrived in South America, that this year I would pass two springs. and what astonishing beginnings they ha...

it is so very quiet when the wind dies down. it is strange how the wind can be at times strong enough to topple you, and at others as gent...

it does feel like the end of world, facing the straits of Magellan. emotionally and physically sandwiched between it all. the solitude is pr...