Whatever the cause, the thirst for a deep, selfless love is insatiable and present across cultures – made all the more tragic by the omnipresent moral framework that dictates that such desires can never be fulfilled for women who made the choice to trade their chastity for their own pleasure. Continue reading A Fleeting and Short-Lived Joy
I was three-hundred miles from home, and a world away, but in a very real way it felt more like home than home itself. Continue reading Home and Humility
The Grizzly Bear is everywhere. And yet the Grizzly Bear is nowhere to be found. Continue reading Los Osos
For the Californian, it is truly as much about the journey as it is about the destination. It is the road itself that reveals elemental truths and quirks of California life – so much so that it is very appropriate that we refer to them as we do. Continue reading Tarmac Stitches
Like an image of a photographer taking a picture of a photographer taking a picture, perhaps no name is better suited for a place that has become imprisoned within a paradisaical myth of itself than a name that, in itself, belies a mythological paradise. Continue reading A Poetry of Names
West of West 