Quartet for ExtractionI. Allegro I'll sit here, but only if I get ice cream after. Only if you let me order from the man behind the counter. Only if I can lick...
Things Promised IIHere is the transcription of my voice-recorded guidebook entry for Rock Point Beach, on Highway 1 in California, written in December, and...
Beginner-ness IIOnce we were out on the water with our boards and our paddles, I realized that the gentle breeze was actually more like a stiffening...
I Used to Be AmbitiousI used to be ambitious. Now I just want to find avocados that cost lest than a buck-fifty each. I want the washing machine to have five...
Brenda's DiscoveryBrenda heaved into view. She was a bit out of bigger gal, so when she arrived in front of Harvey, she had to bend over on her knees to...
Beginner-nessAccording to a report by the Outdoor Industry Association (which is, I have discovered, a real thing) a full 1 percent of the American...
Back to BasicsA lot of stuff in the air about aesthetic responses to the politics of fear. A lot about how art needs to "hit back." All these folks out...
Green and WhiteLines of Sight, the first solo museum show for Carmen Herrera, closed at The Whitney this week. At 101 years old, it was the...
DvořâkingIt sounds like folk music, straight out of a place with mountains and clear streams. A place where insects teem. Where mists lie low in...
InsideAllen didn't know that war had come to the peninsula. At the moment that Ichabod was assassinated while bathing -- precipitating a series...