Senses Working

After a fitful night of sleep, we headed over to Bagels Unlimited on University Avenue for coffee and fuel. It was full of sleepy Fest atten...

Taylor , the Captain (both of No More Analog, Taylor in Trailer of Tears), and I headed up Saturday and convened at a building housing a num...

Gainesville's Fest 8, one of the biggest punk-flavored festivals in the country, drew close to 350 bands and thousands of music lovers f...

Note: This post began as a comment to Harry S Truman's article at Owl and Bear , but because of its unweildy length, it's here inst...

. . . the sun like a high beam In the rearview mirror, when the song comes On the radio like a pre-programmed miracle Amid the grim preachin...

As the intelligence and tone of public discourse devolves into apoplectic frothing, gun toting, and absolutely inane claims from the extreme...

What do you do when you walk out and this rain-wet kitten covered with flies drags itself out of the empty lot onto your property? You thin...

July 17: Dirty Projectors, Atlas Sound Andi and I headed from her pleasant apartment in East Atlanta to Flat Shoals for Thai before the sho...

I packed my cross-eyed Hyundai full of people who like good music (Rebecca, Laura, Kat, and Stuart) and we headed to enjoy the sun and sand ...

The last day of the festival started off with one of my favorite living poets, Kim Addonizio, and it was good to run into her in the green r...

The nice thing about going west from east is the ease with which I wake up early, since 6:30 LA is 9:30 GA. I shower, shave, dress up (for m...

My annual trip to California for the LA Times Festival of Books was a quick and busy foray into my home state. Because of my teaching sched...

Go back to the sunlit world and tell your story. from "Hymn to Persephone" by Craig Arnold Thinking because that's...

Hiking around in the woods behind my house both keeps me in touch with nature and also reveals what we humans do to it. Big storms deposit g...

I know you're on pins and needles, having waited, both of you, so patiently for my review of day three of the Harvest of Hope festival. ...