When I was coming of age, I spent six great years in the Pacific Northwest, and I’ve always held a romantic fondness as a result. I’ve not been back in a long time, so Lissa and I are off for 10 days to Seattle and the islands to the north. They’ve got oceans and boats …
Nora needs some help from some of you sciencey types. Head on over….
Words of wisdom I recently shared with my daughter: It’s important to never take blueberry swirl bread toast for granted.
I woke up Sunday morning for the first time in year without thinking about what work I needed to do that day on the book. The manuscript sits in a stack on the shelf next to me. (They want it printed on paper in addition to being burned onto a CD! How quaint!) I took …
And the angels came from on high, and bade Lissa go forth into that December morn and purchase luminaria bags, for the old bags were worn, or missing entirely. And lo, the angels suggested K-Mart, saying the Lord doth view Wal-Mart as the more evil of the two shopping options in our neighborhood. “But K-Mart …
A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism: Technologies such as the bow and arrow already desimianize the act of hunting. While our ancestors were able to experience the pure ape feeling of clubbing an animal to death with a rock, we are left with the cold, sterilized bow that kills cleanly and quickly from a safe …
Walpi, Circa 1947 Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. This is from one of Dad’s old sketchbooks, which he gave me recently. It is not possible to adequately describe the importance his art has for me. It’s my whole visual language – the smell of oil paint and those remarkable paintings I stared at as a child, …
I’ve always loved the minimalism of the desert. Like everything, it’s more complicated than you think, but it’s easier in the desert to see how the pieces fit together. Nora captures that brilliantly in a little bit of business from her novel that she posted on her blog: “When I was growing up, I read …
I’m a New Mexican now, fully, but I remain a Californian by birth, family history, upbringing and nostalgia. That is where my family’s history comes together. My mother’s parents were part of California’s first great invention of itself in the early 20th century. My father came west after the Second World War to become part …
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Mom and Dad in the Bosque Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Went out to the woods by the river Sunday afternoon with Mom and Dad. The leaves are pretty much at their peak. It was lovely. And I see I wasn’t alone in my blog-flickr-journeying.