I’m up a mountain in northern New Mexico, at the Rio Hondo Workshop.  We’re in a  beautiful valley of the Sangre de Cristos, so what did I do?  Hike in the beautiful mountain wilderness?  Go bird-watching?  Get a workout on the ol’ mountain bike? Nope, I spent the day cooking a meal for twelve people. […]

“There would be absolutely nothing wrong with that except for the fact that absolutely everything is wrong with that.” You may have seen this already, but I thought it deserves as wide an audience as it can get, so here it is. There are all sorts of ways to buy debt in our country, and […]

So last night I dreamed that I went fishing in the Jémez with Muddy Waters.  Howlin’ Wolf and BB King were along, but I was mostly hanging with Muddy.  He loaned me his Pocket Fisherman, and I pulled in some beautiful blue-and-gold butterfly fish, which is not exactly what you expect from a New Mexico […]

The sale for the StoryBundle is in its final three days, so I thought I’d gin up some interest by running a contest. Identify these objects: First person to identify the subjects of one of the two photos below will receive a free StoryBundle— which means you get eight whole books for zero money! There’s […]