Going Alone

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

Waking up early is a very good use of time; for it reminds us soon that we are still alive and provides an opportunity to bring in a full...

I believe that Yumiko and I are as prepared for our new life together as we might hope to be. With our daughter leaving us this coming...

Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...

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...

It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he may live in all respects so...

The principle of The Pirate Ride suggests that free will is an illusion created by our seeming sense of the options which life presents...

During a discussion with a coworker today I realized I had said too much. It would have been better if I had left off speaking after my...

I think our expiration date is roughly our fiftieth birthday. What I mean, is that if we have not yet observed and said anything original...

My daughter has begun to produce art for my book Going Alone. She came with me to the desert recently to experience firsthand the...

My daughter Emily joined me on this trip after I hired her to draw a map and various illustrations for use with the Going Alone and The...

While Emily works to enliven the wastes below the bridge, I relate the final chapter of Going Alone, which both acknowledges and...

My daughter joins me at Siberia to learn about the ruins and guess at the stories of the lives which were once lived at this place and...

En route to Siberia ghost town, I’ve stopped for shelter within the skeletal remains of a Route 66 gas station. The wind today is hard...

I'd left Siberia ghost town as the sun went down, departing for a four-hour motorcycle ride into the desert night; with hot wind at my...

On a windy, blustery day alone in the East Mojave Desert I stood and walked and talked and remembered and recounted and critiqued again...

Every chapter I write in the desert has a character and distance about it which I could not capture anywhere but within a void. There is...

The Path of Wildness is easy to find... It is the course of a stream, and a beast's track through the woods; leaves blown in the wind,...

My daughter and I sighted this long string of high-powered supercars: Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis, McLaren and more, racing along a...

As a student, my daughter sometimes asks me to make her "camp coffee" which she appreciates for being extra strong and a good pick me up...