One of the main reasons I drove east for 2,000 miles last month and then sped back west again was to attend the Feet First Sessions workshop in NYC. It was led by photographers Max and Margaux and Jesse and Whitney and based on the idea that sometimes, you just have to jump in feet first without thinking. And […]
6:33a CST – Good morning! – from El Dorado, Kansas (Kansas) Not used to giant thunderstorms to go with my gargantuan cup of morning coffee. My black, lighting apocalypses are usually afternoon tea affairs. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid of a potential Oz-esque tornado to interrupt or follow this cup. […]
26 days ago I left to drive east. While driving for four days out, three days back, and elsewhere in-between, I grabbed a pen and threw thoughts haphazardly into my cheery, red Moleskin anytime the mood struck me, writing precariously with the steering wheel for a desk. Sometimes I marked the time; oftentimes I did […]
I am sitting at a white table, the leaves extended up to hold two computers, the salt and pepper, the jar of sugar, a water bottle, the black t-shirt, keys, scissors and sewing things, the Bag Balm, and a subway map, which I am using as a mouse pad. I think to myself inwardly and […]
As I sit in the darkening kitchen, I watch the wind that leads the storm shake the weeds outside the window. It is hot, hot, hot – each day, every day – and we need this rain, but it only teases. And the expansiveness I feel as I wait reminds me of driving across Arizona […]
