"O'er the bare upland, and away / Through the long reach of desert woods, / The embracing sunbeams chastely play, / And gladden these deep solitudes." The trip back down from Santa…

"Whose woods these are I think I know..." The new day finds us rolling across Sonoma County, through Healdsburg and Geyserville, enjoying way too much wine.

"When music is far enough away the eyelid does not often move and objects are still as lavender without breath or distant rejoinder..." Something, something about quietude or quietness, another Frank O'Hara…

When last we spoke I mentioned that I quit my job.

What else did I do while I was in New Jersey? Oh, you know…lots of things. I arrived late Monday evening. My sister was on her way home from class at the…

Radio silence – at least in Swan Fungus lore – is typically a sign of bad news. Lucky for you (and me!) this most recent stretch of noiselessness was due to my traveling…

I awoke relatively early on the morning of my final day in Denver. Steve was driving down from Fort Collins for a day of brewery hopping, and I wanted to squeeze as much…

Ken and KT’s apartment is in a cool, walkable neighborhood with balcony views of Mile High Stadium and the Rockies. There’s a ton of development going on in Denver now (they expect the…

As mentioned in my last post, I recently snuck out of town to visit friends in Colorado. LA has been feeling a little too confined of late so I figured I would…

You can hear it as it rises from the corner booth at your local craft beer bar. Or maybe that one friend of yours with too much disposable income who boasts a…