Words and Wild Spaces

One of my favorite wine stores of all time is back up and running. Weygandt Wines in Washington DC's Cleveland Park neighborhood is r...

“Tattoos” — Poem published in BloodLotus: An Online Literary Journal , August, 2011. http://www.bloodlotusjournal.com/2011/08/bl-21.html ...

A Philadelphia Night I showed up on your doorstep loaded down with freedom, wine and half a pack of cigarettes. You invited me into yo...

Peekay epitomizes the underdog. As a “rooinek” (of British blood), the other students in his largely Afrikaans boarding school hate him. The...

I have a thing about wine shops. I have to go into them, and then, once inside, I have to peruse their the entire collection. I guess it cou...

My brother Zeke and his wife Bekah have been on a cross-country road trip from California to the East Coast by way of Utah, Chicago, Detr...