I’m writing this before we officially arrive at our new destination. I’m cheating, yes, but today, as you read this, we have arrived in Grand

This was a move that almost didn’t happen. The series of misadventures my poor wife endured trying to fly from Burbank Airport to Omaha and

Oddly enough, we were sitting in an airport in Oklahoma City of all places, when our escape route out of the Bay Area presented itself.

I’ve called the Bay Area home on three different occasions. The first go-around was in Half Moon Bay, right on the coastline. Its a tourist

Our sojurn to “The Springs”, as the locals call the city, came after our second stint in Gallup. We really enjoyed our 18-month run there.

Up until December of 1991, the entirety of my writing career had been freelance. I cobbled together magazine articles, got in some photography work and

So here it is, January 1986. Halley’s Comet is overhead and , after quite a show the last time it had swung by, this time

West Texas has two seasons: Boom or Bust. If you’ve seen the movie “Friday Night Lights” you already have a pretty clear picture of what

The Kentucky experiment having yielded no good results, we headed for Deming, New Mexico, the headquarters for the company we’d been working for in Kentucky.

Our third run in Turlock lasted just long enough for me to graduate from high school but it was time to move on. This time