This link will (should) take you to the latest issue of High Desert Journal, a beautiful online publication that features writing from and about the high desert West. Each issue also features an artist from the region. I’m proud to be part of it! https://www.highdesertjournal.com/copy-of-28-10 Continue reading →

https://www.riverteethjournal.com/blog/beautiful-things/2019/02/18/october Continue reading →

Dear Mustang Friends, by which I mean friends of mustangs and friends of each other and friends of me— This morning I awoke to a few seconds of peace before the horror hit, the memory and knowledge of yesterday. I expect many of you had the same experience. It’s what happens the day after a … Continue reading →

Despite a commitment to self, I have failed to write intended blog posts over the past many months, distracted by finishing a thesis for an MFA, and then finishing a draft of the book the thesis has become. That manuscript now with several readers (THANK YOU!!!), I have spare writing time. But that is not … Continue reading →

Today I get a disheartening rejection. This is nothing new for a writer—at least not for this writer—but that’s beside the point. Today’s rejection hurt. So I did what any other rejected writer might do under the circumstances: laundry. Bending to the machine to lift out wet Wranglers, I saw through the window a large … Continue reading →

A year ago Tyler and I were here… https://www.nps.gov/dena/getinvolved/air-wilder.htm (Please click on the link to see where….) Continue reading →

Please click on the following link to read the latest Mustang Tales column, written by yours truly. Sadly, no beautiful TJ Holmes photographs accompany this writing.  Read on and you’ll see why. http://www.wildhorsepreservation.org/media/mustang-tales-bringing-reader-range-counting-mustangs Continue reading →