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 […]