Jazz Pianist Hampton Hawes: Remembering a Relative
Originally Published in All About Jazz, 2020
He was my maternal grandmother’s nephew, the thin, handsome relation who grew
Urban Park Culture: Celebrating the City Park Environment
The magazine is currently on hiatus, but you can enjoy the premiere issue here:
https://online.anyflip.com/jwsef/upjt/
Illness and the Movement of Time:
Reflections on Architecture, Music, and the Benefits of Raw Honey (2018)
The movement of time becomes painfully apparent when one is ill, either droning on during treatment and recovery, or fleeting
Hawks of the Afternoon:
On the Beauty and Fear of Isolation
It’s early afternoon on a weekday, during a lull in my patrol of municipal land. The tires of my
Library Digressions:
Curating the Chaos
Is it a library or simply a collection of books stacked for convenience in various parts of the house, frightening
Alone in a Silent Grove
Breath
of the muted voice, becoming quiet along the way, one
soft stream of air made softer still, by the
An Older Volume
Closed,
and older still in memory
than forgotten ideas and other points of departure, a book
waits behind the centuries,
Voices in the Grass:
Remembering Chaney Trail
I don’t recall the official history of the land, that portion of Angeles National Forest where I grew up
Airport:
On the Journey of Strangers
Although not a habitué of hotels and airports, I’ve passed through enough of them to reflect, to enjoy their
The Eames Chair and Optimism:
The American Aesthetic at Midcentury
From my childhood in the 70s, I recall the orange chairs of waiting rooms, plastic décor elements which seemed very
