Lovely agents is picked to pieces at the moment, and has to be substantially reassembled before I see them at the end of June. And strong stomach muscles featuring in my future.

Such exquisite torture, this writing humbuggery. Dear Mom, before I sat down to write this, 42 years went by. Together, we braved a world confused by a white, single parent and a mixed-race kid in the 1970s. I existed in a cloud of gap-toothed uncertainty. Got in fights with boys. Played baseball in the street. Asked you about the rules of football. Wanted to be called Roger. We meet again in some far-off place,. I took a trip to my.

Monday, October 19, 2009.

Glimmers and flashes of the mountains, canyons, and high desert country in Idaho. The place standing of big pines,. Only a few weeks earlier. The entire prairie had burst. Into an ocean of violet-blue. Now, clutching her fire-hardened digging stick,. She lifts the soil beneath the withered. Brown remains of a quamash. And brings up the fat tuber,. A special gift from the gods.

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