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Combination Skateboard and Taco Bell 

by | Apr 2, 2018

I think sometimes being a runner has trained me too well to use that overrule, to endure whatever path lies before me, to be patient to a fault—to stay the course when the course is going to kill me.

The Gluttony of Fear

by | Jan 25, 2018

Deep in the those woods, where the Severn River winds through White spruces and Balsam firs, I wonder if any of the trees are old enough to have lived during both Jack’s lifetime and my own.

In Search Of Our DNA

by | Sep 27, 2017

The rupture between God and humanity is crystal clear in this one, and as the play careened toward its tragic ending, no one in the theatre was surprised.

Wunderkammer!

by | Feb 23, 2017

Nowhere else in this big wide world of ours can you find a life-size Michael Jackson and Princess Diana made entirely out of marzipan.

Stealth Camping: Part Three

by | Aug 6, 2014

Maps do not mark nameless places. Guidebooks rarely print recommendations of ambiguous legality. So the frugal traveler must listen to vague rumors and offhand comments. Although they carry more risk, they also carry more potential than any official source.

Stealth Camping: Part Two

by | Jul 6, 2014

I approached the Mustang with my hands raised in surrender. No weapons. No threats. I passed through the glare of the headlights and saw three men sitting in the car. All were big in the Mike Tyson way, and all three looked angry.

Stealth Camping: A How-To Guide for the Frugal Traveler

Stealth Camping: A How-To Guide for the Frugal Traveler

by | Jun 6, 2014

Sleep isn’t all that important if it comes at that rate. A night that costs more than thirty bucks is a night that would be better spent wandering around the streets killing time until sunrise.

Superlative Syndrome

Superlative Syndrome

by | Aug 7, 2013

So I let baby calves with rough tongues suck on my fingers. I stopped caring about whether or not I was getting dust on my white shorts or cow manure on my shoes.