The rest of us have to find a way to write bold and glittering and daring fiction without their form of fairy gold.
Summer Evening
After supper on these warm evenings in Santa Fe, my dog Pip usually insists on a walk.
And Now, Margaret Sanger
Yesterday, Planned Parenthood of Greater New York removed the name of Margaret Sanger, “founder of the organization,” from its Manhattan clinic because of her “harmful connection to the eugenics movement.”
Bear
A few years ago when I built my studio on the edge of the Santa Fe Watershed in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, I was visited by two bears.
Puttin’ On the Ritz
That’s what we all need right here (wherever here is) and right now.
L’esprit de L’escalier
We took our usual shortcut through an open field where an old house used to stand…
What We Can’t Say Now
We need to define, and vigorously defend, the line between art and politics.
I Can’t Teach You to Write
What I can inspire, if not teach, is the appetite for putting words down on the page that has been my theme and my salvation since I was a child.
Let’s Dance
Why dance now, when we are all wrapped to a greater or lesser degree in gloom, even despair, with worse times ahead?
Eat the Rich
Where are we to turn for sustenance, the well-off as well as the less comfortable?