2. There's a coffee shop walking distance from the shelter. These days I haunt coffee shops like I used to haunt bars. I went to...

[This is Part 2 of a series that I'll add to intermittently. It may come in waves of two or three posts in a row, or it may be weeks o...

[continued from Part 1 ] [Northeast of Albuquerque NM, 26 June 2018] So the thing about traveling by train is that there is at lea...

Endurance is patience concentrated. ~ Thomas Carlyle A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning...

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals/ Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . . ~ Nick Cave   Harold Lloyd,...

  I am an exile's book. He sent me. ~Ovid Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your ow...

 [If you missed the first part, read it here ] Everyone spent what seemed like forever giving me shit for blushing. Wasn't my fa...

  Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simpli...

Toil on, son, and do not lose heart or hope. Let nothing you dismay. You are not utterly forsaken. I, too, am here--here in the darkness wa...

[Part one can be found here ] Me (Left), Dad, and my older brother. Dad was my first hero. The best and most important lesson I have ...

Part 1 HERE [I'm in transit, on a 15 hour burn to Phoenix. The bus, as far as L.A. anyway, is the first bus outfitted with electric outl...