a collage of red and orange door and wall accents for no particular reason
On Monday night, my cousin’s teen daughters, Solana and Maya, lost their home. It burned to the ground. Literally. I am beyond grateful Solana and Maya and their mother Stefanie are okay. But they need, well — Everything. If you have extra clothes — emphasis on teenage girl clothes — you […]
It is — 3:30 in the morning and the air is finally beginning to move. It is still hot air, but not as hot as earlier. And if I close my eyes I can imagine the sound of wind and soft distant traffic is the ocean and I am somewhere near the sea […]
Most of my childhood — Has burned or shaken away. Forget mudslides. Which everyone pretends is an aberration, not a regular thing. I remember kids taking pieces –– small pieces because it was rubble — of the roof away from a grammar school I attended. The whole administration building went down during a […]
I told someone once — He had to be more there or not there at all just go away because the way I grew up, I never knew if anyone was coming back for me after they dropped me off. What I maybe left out was, you could not count on the ground or […]
Watching it, I thought, holy shit, I have never seen anything in my life like that. Well, not since I was driving through a burning rain forest, that got kind of out of hand and being in an open top jeep did not help but — no. Not here. Not ever. Then I asked […]
If you have missed it [I am not sure how you could these fires can be seen from space and Colorado is choking on our smoke] California is burning. But talking about it doesn’t really tell you what we are seeing here I am just going to post the photos they do. [Also I […]