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Book Excerpt: Shaffer Bend Recreation Area – LCRA Park, Marble Falls, TX
We follow the dusty, white caliche toward water downshifting along the way, driving slowly through the bends and curves of the road. The...


Ode to Terlingua
I didn’t always love myself, you see? It’s not enough to simply show up. It takes purpose to shed the paradigms that others place upon...


Lost and Found in Monahans
(as published in the Fall 2023 Cenizo Journal) This is a story of a horse and the girl who loves him. I lie back on the picnic bench and...


Fort Richardson State Park, Texas
At night the ghosts come out. They roam the corridors of my mind and wander the graveyard of my soul - the parts I thought I’d put to bed...


A Village on the Edge - Boquillas, Mexico (Across the Rio at Big Bend National Park)
(as published in the Spring 2023 Cenizo Journal) This morning, when I went outside as I always do to greet the day and smell the desert,...


Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
I saw a shooting star last night against the canvas of the night sky. One brief flash among a backdrop of many as it was trying hard to...


Sea Rim State Park, Texas
The beach lies perpetually in motion. A stretch wide and long as a striped asphalt runway. Sun glistens off the wet sand and with each...
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