Chong Kneas, Floating Village
on Oct 10, 2009Tonlẽ Sap is the largest lake in Southeast Asia, fed by or, depending on the season, feeding the mighty Mekong River. The water level fluctuates from a depth of about 10 m in the wet season to 2 m in the dry and the lake nourishes a huge chunk of...

Ghost in the Mirror
on Sep 2, 2009I had a dream about you and ghosts. The ghosts were fierce and dangerous and I needed you to help me fight them. In the dream, time was compressed and day turned into night and back into day over and over. While the sun was up I couldn’t find yo...

The State of the City
on Jul 31, 2009I was re-reading some old posts the other day, something I don’t do very often, and was struck by how often over the last 5 years I was leaving someplace, looking for somewhere else to go or just plain trapped. I like that I’ve lived many differ...

Scene at Grass Lake
on Jun 25, 2009We were walking around Grass Lake, a walk we’d done many times before, but never quite like this. We hadn’t seen each other in over a month. It hadn’t really been that long since we’d seen each other every minute of every day for days on en...

Trouble in Mind
on Jun 8, 2009I’ve been listening to a lot of Janis Joplin lately because of a dead woman. She died in late middle-age and I never met her. One day she went into her basement, put some towels on the concrete floor under the laundry tub, just beside the washer,...

Welcome to Sarajevo
on May 27, 2009The train from Zagreb passes through a landscape that seems unlike anyplace else I’ve visited in Western Europe. I don’t recognize the names of towns to come: Velika, Gorica, Banja Luka, Maglaj, Visoko. Shortly after leaving the station most sign...

So Much for Travel Updates
on Feb 13, 2009Alright, so I'm doing an utterly terrible job of writing about my travels. It's just too hard to sit down in front of a computer and write about stuff when there's more stuff to actually *DO*. So far, I've been through Fiji, New Zeal

See the World!
on Nov 24, 2008I know I've done a terrible job of posting lately and I haven't even gotten around to Part III of this desert saga I've been working on, but things have been a little out of hand. How out of hand? Well, tonight I'm off to Fiji and fro

The Last Morning Pt. II
on Aug 25, 2008I turned away from the risen sun now hanging blood red before me and thought of a time--it now hardly seemed to have been my life--when I was waiting at a train station. A different desert. A different country. She arrived late that night and we n...

The Last Morning
on Jun 30, 2008As night gave way to the first light of dawn, Tony pointed his .45 at the horizon and emptied the cartridge. But the sun kept rising, day crawling ever closer, unstoppable.“Fuck you,” he muttered, ejecting the clip. None of us wanted this day t...