Picture Me Trolling #covfefe
I lied in my last essay, "An Angry Optimist In The Desert". I’m still mad. I wrote that last piece after a desert retreat, and damn, even in the …
An Angry Optimist In The Desert
My anger is finally subsiding. It’s not because I’ve started to accept this Trump version of the United States, but rather I’ve been realizing even thi…
Monumental
The worst part about being a writer is not writing. And not writing at this point in my career means not working on something big. And something big is…
From Poetry Slam to Poetry Jam – Be Heard
Last year, “Be Heard” was a vulnerable, raw and sometimes angry poetry championship for Durango – otherwise known as a poetry slam. The champion, Amy L…
Super Baby Dances The Durango Tango
The move has been extensive, and the discoveries were inevitable, but I’d totally forgotten about the adult diapers. I’m moving out of the place I’v…
Finding Love In Durango
To paraphrase my homey Chris Rock, all successful relationships are boring. In perilous times like these, I turn to great activists like Martin Luth…
Wild Mountain Honey
‘It’s a shame the single mountain women are complained about more than celebrated, for they are more beautiful than the mountains themselves,’ he thoug…
A Story of A Moustache (and the women who love them)
Every year we have a mustache competition in Indian Creek, Utah on Thanksgiving. It’s a competition I’ve never participated in because I never thought …
Counter Culture – Mark Sundeen’s latest is Unsettlers, In Search of The Good Life in America
The last time writer Mark Sundeen talked in Durango, he told us about “the man who quit money.” This time around, on Tues., Feb. 7, at Maria’s Bookshop…
I only love people
Recent happenings in America, most notably the rise in Trumpism, have made me realize something I realized long ago: I don’t like people. I only love p…