Joys, expected and unexpected, of the shift in my day job
I no longer have to shave, wear work shirts, and eschew the Oxford comma. The first two I expected. The third has been a pleasant surprise.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
Geomorphology of a fake lake
I’m fascinated by the geomorphic traces left by the rise and fall of Lake Mead – human scale (egret scale?) shoreline terraces. This is on the northern bank above Boulder Harbor. The bird, shown for scale (I don’t have a rock hammer, it’s a great egret, so quite large), hangs out there because of the …
Hoover Dam, sunset
I took a lot of pictures on my recent trip. This is one of them.
My semi-charmed life: Episode II
Isabel Sanchez, my editor for many years at the Albuquerque Journal, gave me this hourglass as a going away present. The joke has been that I really need a new watch, and that I was just nine months away from my 25th anniversary at the Journal, which is traditionally marked by the gift of a …
a “literary startup”
I like how Mary Z. Fuka described yesterday’s John Fleck 2.0 launch party – I’m a “literary startup“. I need a clever name with some sort of capital letter in the middle or something. And a logo. I need a logo, right? This morning, the day after I finished up the last stories of a …
The West has always been, in part, a thing of our imagination
That corner in Winslow Arizona, the one with the pretty girl and the flatbed Ford? Actually happened in Flagstaff, the truck was a Toyota.: Browne was traveling through Arizona when he began working on the song. But the scene about the corner and a girl in the Ford was written by Frey after Browne related …
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