Visual records
Originally this column was going to talk about long Covid. My social media posts get steady feedback that assumes life is good and I am well when, in fact, I [read more...]
Musings
Family Story: a line of descent
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Rewriting novels, a short soapbox and coffee
Once upon a time The woman to whom for a while I was married used to tell me, “You have every symptom of Attention Deficit Disorder, except you finish [read more...]
Thinking aloud
Introductonomicon What follows is a very long post discussing the ambition, confusion and frustration in my life and art for which I lack the language to [read more...]
Family Story: Dogged Wishing
1966 CE The incident I want to tell about happened when I was eleven. That was a different world and another context, so before telling about the incident I [read more...]
February: Update Frittata
Call it a week and a half that I’ve been back in Uruguay after visiting Texas. All the questions unresolved before the trip are still unresolved, but now [read more...]
Molt
A familiar type but unfamiliar, the leaves dance nameless in light and wind through most of a coffee. They dance when word, a name from elsewhere, slips from [read more...]
City notes
Odd thoughts in a new environment. Practicing buses Today, after a couple hours of early housekeeping, I ventured into brilliant sun to try the bus route to [read more...]
Dreaming on a shoestring
I had started for Montevideo in the early days of 2020. Started in the sense that I had signed a contract for sale of my home and shucked most of my [read more...]
Mothership connection
The way has opened for interrupted plans. Not only did barriers fall, but there is a deadline by which change must happen. Suddenly, there is no time to waste. [read more...]
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