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A week ago I spent a long weekend with my friend Doug Moeller in Farmington. His wife of 52 years, Tyra, had succumbed to cancer after a long illness, the family had gone to their homes after the funeral, and … Continue reading
I just read Jonathan P. Thompson’s The River of Lost Souls (Torrey House Press, March 2018). The book unsettled me. Profoundly. On August 5, 2015, EPA contractors who were investigating a portal of the Gold King Mine above Durango accidentally … Continue reading
I went into the LDS Third Ward in Farmington, New Mexico. I could not tuck my long hair up under a cap as poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder did when he “went into the Maverick Bar / In Farmington, … Continue reading
Nearly four decades since I last attended church in my hometown, more than a decade since I left the Mormon Church, twenty years since I began writing after John’s death, a week after Barack Obama was elected to a second … Continue reading
I went into the LDS Third Ward in Farmington, New Mexico. I could not tuck my long hair up under a cap as poet and environmental activist Gary Snyder did when he “went into the Maverick Bar / In Farmington, … Continue reading
On John’s birthday, 23 years after his death, I remember us standing together in front of our house in Farmington, New Mexico for a photo: Separated by nearly 2 years, the first two of 8 children, we had our many … Continue reading
Utah has been the surprising site of unthinkable marriages over the past few weeks. The photo to the right is of one of the three couples who brought suit against the state for discriminatory practices related to marriage. Laurie Wood, … Continue reading
In what must have been 1966, Mormon Church leaders (including a lawyer, an Indian trader, a car dealer, and a petroleum geologist) flew us from Farmington, New Mexico, to Lake Powell, where we water-skiied and then flew home. I’ve been … Continue reading
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY 