FOR BEHOLD, something completely different. This is an excerpt from a “rock & roll science fiction” novel I haven’t touched in over a year. What follows is part of what Anne Lamott calls the all-important “shitty first draft,” posted here temporarily to get my juices flowing one way or the other. The main character drives [...]
Writing
Interesting weekend…
Here’s your chance to see me in person! I’ll be reading a few killer selections of my work at the above event from 4:00 to 4:15 p.m. on Saturday, July 25, with a short question-and-answer session afterwards. Expect the timing to be somewhat improvised. Note that the theme is Taos itself, which raises certain dangers. [...]
I know, I know. The weedwhacker’s in the shop, okay? »Buy This Photo!«
This post was silly and has been removed. Bah! But I can tell you that I”ve learned a thing or two about being stuck. (Fear will do that to a man.) When it comes to art, you have to let it do what it will do. I had a 350-page pile of selected blog posts [...]
More snow on the mountain now means more water in the summer streams »Buy This Photo!«
We don’t mess around here in northern New Mexico. If this timezone wasn’t already called “Mountain Time,” we’d have to change it. I took this telephoto shot of Taos Mountain, officially known as Pueblo Peak (which no one calls it), around 7:30 a.m. MDT from just a few steps outside the front door. The elevation [...]
Somewhere in the Texas Panhandle, July 8, 2010 »Buy This Photo!«
[Longform, 1600 words and counting. Brutal, true, up-lifting, possibly unfair, almost certainly transparent under hindsight. (We’ll see!) There’s a lot of personal history here. This is one I do feel good about and recommend. – JHF]
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