Thank you for reading Letters From the Desert. This post is public so feel free to share it. California (a love poem) I found myself free in you, you…
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I am tired. The pending episode of the podcast is still unpublished, about two weeks after I’d hoped to publish it. Some of that delay is just normal…
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February 2023

The Cronese Cat
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The future might not be horrible. If we're lucky.
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I began living in the desert full-time in 2008, leaving an established life in the Bay Area for one in the desert whose shape I had no way of telling…
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January 2023

Departing from the desert for this one, as I’m thinking — well, moping, to be honest —about a family member who is feeling poorly of late. This piece is…
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About ten days ago I was set to do a public reading of my work in progress “Forsaken.” I ended up postponing that reading in part because only a handful…
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I have to admit it to myself: Heart is an old dog. She wasn’t old when I adopted her, and that was only eight years ago. I am still trying to wrap my…
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December 2022

A private space for us to converse and connect
Geez, there are a lot of cobwebs in this place. Better open up some windows, let the air in. Cough. Howdy, everyone. This missive will be chattier than…
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October 2022

I could do this for another hundred years, I think. Forty years ago I started traveling the West, shedding the profusion of greenery the eastern states…

September 2022

Trying to save the Pahrump Valley
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