Paul Vlachos is a New Yorker who understands The West. And he is a New Yorker who understands New York. Wherever Paul goes, he finds signs of life… Santa Rosa, New Mexico – 2012, from the overgrown parking lot…
Home on the Range for Xmas… and Wilder’s homage to Abbey and O’Keefe: Dave Wilder’s art can be seen at: http://www.wilderarts.com and at the Laughing Raven Gallery 417 Hull Ave. Jerome, Arizona and on facebook: “David…
Can there be any doubt that we live in an age quantified, represented and defined by the cell phone? I came to this conclusion a few years back when visiting San Francisco at the Thanksgiving Holiday. I had given two…
TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT…Jim Stiles Election Blues…Speaking of Elections, Hate Bain Capital? Now Go Look in the Mirror…The Stiles Job Plan: “Do as the French do.” SOWING CLOVER… Tonya Audyn Stiles “The Walnut Desk” THE POETRY of DAMON…
Election Blues… I have little or no enthusiasm for this election campaign. Nor do I think the outcome, either way, will dramatically change anything. The election of 2008 was supposed to change EVERYTHING. It didn’t. Whether you want to blame…
Dove Creek I know how my father Picked through the desert Looking for ruins. I know the golf clubs He carried to ward off snakes, Swinging them through sage And dens made uneasy In their own shadows then. All for…
I don’t live in Moab anymore. It’s been a decade since I packed my bags and slipped south (and then east) to smaller, quieter communities. Last week, after 37 years, I closed out my box at the post office. Box…
…As Urban Sprawl and “Civilization” swallow us up, a second look at the ‘Hooved Locusts’ by Dave Jarvis It was just after two in the morning and I heard the soft putter of an All Terrain Vehicle drive past. My…
The first time I went to Big Bend I drove all night. West of San Antonio on US 90 the land emptied into flat black space and one or two distant lights. After two hundred miles I crossed the wild…
Thirty Years in the Beehive State & Still a Heathen After All These Years… For most of my adult life, I’ve lived in Utah. I discovered the canyon country when I was not much more than a kid and…