Going Alone

I once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...

I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...

All memorable events, I should say, transpire in the morning time and in morning atmosphere. -Henry David Thoreau There is a season in...

Next week, our daughter Emily will leave us. As a family, on Saturday, July 11th, we will spend a day moving her few things to an...

Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...

The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...

I discovered a fellow desert ghost town ghost today in a woman living alone in the deserted railroad community of Cisco, Utah. I can...

Every weekday evening - during this strange life and temporary life I now live away from my family - I typically have dinner alone at a...

October 5, 2019 Dear Eric, There's a place I go to work. It's way out in the desert - almost two-hundred miles from my current home by...

October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...

September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...

September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of

August 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I've gone quiet on social media... I know you don't know what that is - social media. It's the way people keep in