For me one of the most complicated questions for me is, "Where are you from?" As a child I moved often and as an adult my gypsy upbringing has repeated as a pattern in my life. The chapters of my memoir Puffy & Blue: The Chronicles of Nine Lives Together are divided by where I lived. I don't consider myself as having a home town. I thought it … [Read more...]
Search the Horizon for a Patch of Blue Sky
When I graduated from high school, I literally walked out of the ceremony, posed for pictures and walked away from everything and everyone that was related to my two years of high school in San Antonio. I went to college at Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon and never looked back. When I left for college I thought I would never step foot in San … [Read more...]
one san antonio night
the stillness of a late night was broken by distant headlights approaching in my rearview mirror, out the open window of a chevy truck he sliced the night air with the edges of a switchblade the truck appeared beside my car and that two men laughed at my terrified face my hands squeezed the horn and it blew deep into the night. my … [Read more...]
