“The explosion of drugs like meth and crack in Rural America has torn away at the psyche of each and every small town… more
“The explosion of drugs like meth and crack in Rural America has torn away at the psyche of each and every small town… more
“He called her Lucy, after my Ma, on account of her eyes being big, round, and dying… more
“When a person becomes a witness…of a violent crime, their lives are never the same”… more
The author of “Half a Man to Bury” discusses memories and death and being remembered in death… more
“Uncle Bill got his legs bit off by a shark and died before his body was brought to shore. You might have seen it in the news… more
“You’d be out fishing with Bob at the aqueduct and Bob would return after having been gone for a while, and he’d say, ‘Come here, I want to show you something… more
“Neither of them was Buddhist, but what they had realized in this valley so many years ago had never left, and they wished they never had either… more
“My father was a surgeon, a shaman and a greyhound. A runner in his youth, he thought little of exercise and called himself a cultured couch potato. As a doctor he loved each patient and included them in what he called prayers… more