A lover’s rumble

The sound of thunder closes my eyes a lovesick fool in the sky blindly stumbling over the treetops roaring out in pain the anguish of unspoken words and others spoken too well the heat of a passion stirred an expanded state of knowing all silence and sound at the exact same moment and I hear an echo in my lonely heart Tagged: Poetry, thunderstorms [...]

An ocular feast of written elements

Sarah and I were making our way to a room on the upper level of the convention center to attend a session and true-to-form I was rubbernecking the entire way, trying to take in anything and everything — mundane details mixed with people-watching and a general curiosity to see what there is to see. During [...]

HOW Austin

Austin, Texas. I’ve heard so much about it being a great place for art, music and design — a hub of creativity — that when Sarah and I got permission to go to the 2009 HOW Design Conference we were stoked. Then we stepped off the airplane and realized we’d have to be careful not [...]

Adventures in paddling

“Hey Dad, I found out about a guided canoe trip down Parker’s Creek on Saturday, June 20 — want to go?” … “It’s the day before Father’s Day, and it’s roughly a three-hour paddle…” “Sure, yeah… Let’s go canoeing!” And with that, it was settled. I was taking my dad on a three-hour tour (que song: “…a three-hour tour…”) [...]