I used to use this exercise with my students sometimes to get them writing. This was my example: The Safest Place When I was growing up, the place I used to feel the safest was in this little camper trailer in the back yard of our house on Neal Street in Socorro. Our house […]
Read MorePrairie Fire on the Llano The summer of drought brought the summer of prairie fires. Onestretched to sixty-three miles of flaming yellow-red teeth consuming dry grass, leaving scraggly black fingers of mesquite, advancing smoke billowing from a distance like God stirring floor sweepings with a giant prairie broom Jake clears a firebreak with the […]
Read MoreI said earlier when I started this blog I was still learning. I believe I’ve adjusted it to make it easier to comment. Thanks to those reading and following.
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