What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
Panorama on Sunday
From our hike on Sunday. We ran into these guys on our way up the hill. That's TCP behind them.
Color and Light in San Miguel
Writing One Word at a Time
My workspace this week. Today is the first day all week that I didn't start writing right after - or even during - my breakfast of fresh tortillas and local honey. Instead, I headed off to run a few errands that I've been putting off all week in favor of finishing The...
Fantasy on Ice
The sky behind the marquee for Fantasy on Ice made a stunning picture, but by the time I got my camera out, the drama had passed. Still, it serves to anchor my report that TCP and I attended two big top events in the past two weeks. First, a week ago Saturday, Fantasy...
El Jardin with Flags, November 5, 2007
All that remains of the altars and banners marking Dio de los Muertos are the flags. The trees, by the way, are Ficus benjamina, those finicky specimens that drop all their leaves if you move them from one room of your house to another. They don't look so finicky...
Fountain at Aldama Intersection
Blue and white flags float over the intersection where Calle Hermanos de Aldama becomes Prolongacion de Aldama. Flags are everywhere in San Miguel, especially, but not only, on feast days. Actually, it's always someone's feast day.
M&M in SMA
That's TCP and me on the upper patio at Casa Caracol. It's a posed shot -- we sent a press release to various newspapers and magazines about our office-away-from-the-office and wanted a snapshot to go with it. Miles usually works inside, though I do often work at this...
When not writing is writing and how to tell
From a conversation in Shaboom County about the creative life. The first part is reprinted by permission from the person who posted it and asked to remain anonymous. This fall I've sometimes not worked until 6PM or later--spending the day doing quotidian things like...
The Luscious Bhodisattva
I always knew that my friend Melissa Gayle West was special, but that didn't mean I planned to read her newsletter, One Minute for Pleasure. I mean, I am so not needing that. Right. Here's what I wrote Melissa today after reading her newsletter for the second week in...