August
In August, one of two things will happen. Either my not-so-secret project will find enough people to make it’s fall dates viable and I’ll come home, or it won’t and I won’t. Regardless, the fates are...
View ArticleHong Kong, China
Typhoon Everything descends: beds, hotel rooms, buses, subway platforms, escalators. I go, desperate and sleepless. Nights, days, and the rain follow. Waking rain, unceremonious rain, rain that talks...
View ArticleThe Lamb’s Head
It’s early, well before dawn. The girl standing on the balcony is an angel. She has the lamb’s head in her mouth, rolling casually between her tongue and cheek like a piece of candy. She’s small and...
View ArticleThe Dragon’s Tooth
On September 10th, Bob Keaty (USA) and I set out to summit The Dragon’s Tooth (~5200m), an unclimbed pinnacle towering over remote Bipeng Valley in north-central Sichuan, China. To the best of our...
View Article31 Lions
The window faces northwest and is still cold to the touch. Jagged spiderwebs of frozen moisture persist in its shaded corners despite a growing warmth, both inside and out. The dining car fills slowly...
View ArticleKathmandu, Nepal
The Tibetan eyes are crying without crying. His mother looks beyond us with a kind of disinterest, never locking my gaze. A world is in the space between us. ~~~ I hoped the plateau would go on...
View ArticleHometown
Despite my trepidation about returning to the “real world,” being home for the holidays is nice. I’ve been spending time with family and friends, and trying to catch up on a bunch of writing. (Yes,...
View ArticleKnots
They are passing They are passing in great waves They are coiled wire They are gasses, excited They are fish pulling on empty, empty air They are grapefruit in the summer heat, overripe and fallen from...
View ArticleHermitage
[Note: This is a pitch for a magazine article that I'd like to write. I don't know how to write pitches but I think these few paragraphs stand well on their own. Enjoy.] Pil’s eyelids are heavy with...
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