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Monthly Archives: April 2008

On West Coast time

suits me very well. Never having been one of those people who can eat first thing in the morning, by the time I feel like it, it’s actually a reasonable time to be eating here (3 hours difference). Likewise, I’ve always felt quite alive in the night and have had a hard time settling down [...]

What I will miss about Cincinnati


Ayahuasca for writer’s block

I’m fascinated by Isabel Allende’s turning to ayahuasca to overcome writer’s block. Is this something you would do?
 ’It was the most intense, out-of-my-mind experience that I have ever had. It was very revealing and very important and opened up a lot of spaces inside me. But I don’t ever want to do it again.’
Isabel Allende [...]

What I saw

The weekend scenery on a drive from Cincinnati to the SC Midlands and back, an abbreviated list:
Horizontal flashes of lightening, in a lightening storm that lasted through NC, maybe about an hour-and-a-half. The most impressive lightening storm in my life yet.
Flashing hazard lights emerging now and again through sheets of rain during the rest of [...]