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On Loneliness
“Because there’s something in a Sunday that makes a body feel alone” – Kris Kristofferson, Sunday Morning Coming Down, 1970 Home can be lonely. In the middle of a reunion, a birthday party, or Christmas—doesn’t matter—home can make you want a drink and to crawl into a dark hole. Once a black sheep, always the…
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If All My Exes Live in Texas, Then Why Am I Still Here?
The hands of change touch everything in my life these days—pushing, pulling, prodding, stopping. What can sometimes be sensuous is now a bully—what egged me on now forces me into submission. I’m learning choke holds in Jiu-Jitsu right now. Is that why I feel like life has me by the throat? If life is a…
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“Dallas is Just a Transition Ground for the Midwest”: A Conversation with Belle Pardue
I sit down with my dear friend Belle Pardue on a Friday night at the Kona Grill in Dallas. They have a reverse happy hour for the mall employees, “The Northpark Centre” employees, as she corrects me. “They’re very adamant about it; the ‘re’. This place is closely tied with the Nashers—I know wealthy people…
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Marfa: Reflections One Year Later
Under the stars and onto the flatness of Mother Nature’s tongue sits a tiny town of about 2,000 people—nine hours west of Dallas and three hours east of El Paso—in one of the largest and least populous counties in Texas—truly, the middle of nowhere. Before Peru was even a possibility in my mind, there was…