I have no intention of starting this again.  At some point I’ll turn it into a real person website, when I have the time and the money.
I don’t live in the desert anymore, and that sucks.  But I do live in a nice drinking town with a drinking problem, that drinks.  And booze is cheap. [...]

There’s been a lot of life between my last post and now.  ”Walking Far from Home” was the anthem for most of it, for me.  (Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” was the anthem of last year’s holiday.)  To try to pick a place other than the start to begin is a little absurd, because there are [...]

I remember complaining about the cold in Ohio.  The constant chill that never quite made it to the bone, but settled on skin and worked into my hands to slow them.  It’s been an oddly cold few days here.  I don’t think it made it above 55 today.  A familiar feeling and a familiar lethargy.  [...]

I’ve been writing a lot of emails, and thinking about them in the sense of correspondence–that is, something that could someday be seen by others.  Letters that people will file away with notes on my books and rough drafts and scraps of paper.  In them I find my philosophy becoming quite solid and my stance [...]

I’ve always had this thing with fall.  It borders on dislike.  Cool temperatures and dropping leaves make me nervous.  Among my strongest memories of anything, ever, is the shadow of a bare treebranch cast against the wall of my room, my first fall on my own.  Raining, the sky two or three shades brighter than [...]

I now keep it quite short.

There’s an idea I came across while rereading The Crossing.  Briefly: if evil was not rewarded by the world, then people wouldn’t engage in it.  Since there is evil, it is rewarded.  Good, then, in its purest form, exists in spite of any recompense.  I have a hard time believing [...]

I’ve got a new short story up at Connotation Press.  It’s “rust noir”, as I like to call it.  A modern, Midwestern spin on the traditional noir tale.  You can find it here. The story is called “Rural Tendencies”.  You can also find an essay on Cowboy Bebop and noir that I wrote here. Some [...]

I call it “Reality Hunger: a Manifesto”.  This may sound familiar to you, since David Shields recently came out with a book by the same name.  The difference is my name is at the bottom of the cover, not his.

Where to start?

Classes are nearly over for the quarter–I’ll be back in Ohio in less than a month.  I’ve been so busy I’ve actually had to use a calendar to keep track of everything.  Today was a potluck; baked a cake, talked with graduates of the program, a professor’s ex-husband– an odd, rich dynamic.  Good [...]

Verdad Magazine has just released its 8th issue, and an excerpt of my novel Above All Men is included.
I’m very proud to be published alongside the likes of Dixie Salazar, Frank X. Gaspar, and am particularly proud to share a publication with Ricardo Zamorano Baez, a classmate of mine who is a phenomenal poet and, [...]