❧ Prompt Update: Haunting

What might happen if we remember this house has two doors, and that if we throw wide the front one, the thoughts that come will very often exit through the back of their own accord?

Ramble #35

We got owls! We got frogs! We got THE MOON. Yes, it’s another Ramble, coming to you live from the Meadows Preserve in Ojai, California. For those of you new to the practice: I record these walk-and-talks every so often as a way to keep track of where my head’s at. If you’d rather read … Continue reading Ramble #35

Echolocation

Part of me feels sad that the hype machine burns out so quickly, other parts are happy that these small-scale experiments go to ground.

The Long-Awaited Tessa Hulls Interview

Just in time for my next event at Bart’s Books, I’ve finally finished cutting together the audio of my previous conversation there with creative powerhouse Tessa Hulls!

Tell Me I’ll Be Okay

I lie in the dark and let their accents and words wash over me, one by one. A house in the mountains of northern New Mexico. A warm beach. A particular couch in a family room.

Ramble #30

This Ramble is about stuff I lost track of in 2021, things I’m thinking about in the new year, trying to abandon perfectionism, what to share and what not to share, the topography of the Ojai Valley, and various other things.

Ramble #28

I’m barely managing to do my own work, which means I have no time for the work around the work—the work about the work.

Ramble #27.2

A Ramble about what to do when there is nothing to be done.

Owl News

Usually we get Great Horned Owls in our garden, slow and mournful and resonant, but last night I heard a newcomer with a call like a rubber ball dropped down a flight of stairs. Listen: It’s a Western Screech Owl! This audio recording is from April 4th, 2020. It was captured 130 miles from here … Continue reading Owl News

Websites? Wobsites. Wibsits!

This is broadly a discussion about websites and trying to be yourself on the internet, but we also managed to talk about The Muppets, book design, 1970s British television, generative poetry, and at least two types of cheese.