what i'm up to
Last Updated: Aug 10, 2026
High Plains - near Clayton, New Mexico
day to day
- I'm going to rework this blog over the coming weeks. I'm not sure where it is headed, but I would like to have a bit more focus with my writing. I enjoy writing about whatever comes to mind (and there will still be plenty of that), but I also want to incorporate my photography. Pictures and paragraphs.
- I've been spending quite a bit of time volunteering for a local non-profit -- doing landscape projects. Mowing the grass. Trimming trees. Edging. Shaping things up. It is oppressively warm, but I find that I truly enjoy the physical labor. And, it's easy to see what I've accomplished.
- Several months ago, I started a western novelette. This week, I'll be getting back to that. It will be corny, and not particularly good, but I want to be able to say I finished it.
currently reading
- Life, and Death, and Giants - Ron Rindo
- Solito - Javier Zamora
recently read
- The Dog Stars - Peter Heller
- Theo of Golden - Allen Levi
recent adventures
- My wife and I just returned from Kansas with her childhood piano. She is quite accomplished as a pianist, and has so many memories connected with this piano. Glad we could get it home.