I’m inside out. Yesterday another unexpected day. The carefully conceived plans, gone. Just get in the Jeep and take in as much as possible. A new ranch. An incredible place, not that high but so vast and so empty all …
Creative: August Self-Publishing Project, Chapter Seven
Humans in Wyoming: 500,000 Antelope in Wyoming: 700,000 What more can I say? I’m in heaven, and I’m in love once again. This place does it to me. I don’t have much time, so this is going to be short. …
Creative: August Self-Publishing Project, Chapter Five
So the book is coming along. A Blurb, 8×10 portrait book, designed in InDesign using the Blurb plugin.(It is awesome!) I’m thinking of using Proline Uncoated stock, and I’m also keeping in mind something NEW that Blurb has coming in …
Creative: August Self-Publishing Project, Chapter Three
Okay, the gear. What and why? My first piece of advice is don’t do what I do. What I’m about to do isn’t recommended, and yet I’m going to do it anyway. If you are embarking on a project just …
Read: Sam Shepard, A Life
I used to see Sam Shepard in Santa Fe. From time to time. At a bar or in a pickup heading the other way. Never met him, never talked to him, but was always somewhat intrigued by him. So when …
Read: The Hidden Half of Nature
The full title of this book is “The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health.” I was originally turned on to this book because it talks about soil health and about how microbes are a huge …
Creative: August Self-Publishing Project, Chapter One
I’ve got my sights set on a new project, and for the first time in a long while I’m going to package this baby in a photography book. To be exact, an 10×8 portrait book. Softcover with Proline Uncoated paper. …
Creative: San Francisco Art Book Fair
This makes three. San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York. Art book fairs I’ve attended. If you haven’t been you should go. Although I’m not entirely a fan of the format, just based on being overwhelmed, these shows are well worth …
Read: Rust and Bone
Craig Davidson’s Rust and Bone brings sex addicts, dog fights, whale bites and prizefights. Do I really need to say anything more? Short stories. Sick. Really sick. Good and sick. Sick, sick. Loved this book. Writer has style and the …
Read: The Forever War
This is the first sci-fi book I’ve ever read. Loved it. Written by a vet, the book is a space reflection on the Vietnam war. Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War is a scary look at a potential future. The imagined …
Read: All the Wrong Places
I finished this book at 4AM on the morning I hiked Santa Fe Baldy. I closed the book then sat in silence with an open window at my back, cool air reminding me of my current elevation. I was so …
Read: Cities of Gold
Any author crazy enough to retrace Coronado’s route across the Southwest is okay in my book. Having traveled some of this same country, via truck and on foot, I can attest-to some tiny degree-just how insane this little voyage actually …