December 31, 2025 Dear all: I am sending penguin inspired greetings for the New Year from a place I was a few days ago, Isla Martillo, off the coast of Ushuaia, in Argentine Tierra del Fuego where I had been many years ago, a place that calls itself the end of the world, the beginning of everything. On this island, there are two types of penguins, Gentoo penguins with orange beaks and Magellanic penguins which are black and white. What are penguin inspired greetings exactly? Well, they're...

December 1, 2025 Dear all: I heard someonecall for ‘magnetic local’ storiesthe more magnetic the betterand I know they meant welleven quoted so-and-sofamous by way of contextbut I swearthe minute I heard‘magnetic local’the rant would not rest... A poetic rant, one of two just published in Panorama: a journal of place (PSST: hey my friend N, yes You, check out your ‘Alas, Alack’ in ‘magnetic locals’) The second poem came upon me suddenly, one day in Sevilla: Have a read, have a listen and if...

November 14, 2025 Dear Friends, Well, a month into being in Peru and this nomad has gone and committed… to a new writing community/blog: Creatively Engage with Ancestral Nature. What kind of ancestor am I after anyway? Whose? It has something to do with a deep longing to be tree and sing stone, to invoke the cave of shadows, the storydark…[Yup, I don’t know what that means either. But I feel it in my teeth.] And how I know I've committed is that I cannot seem to stop writing: about following...