Tales of the Total Stranger

(I heard this story over the whine of a group of hundred-fifty horsepower electric motors driving the pumps that suck the water from the Sna...

(I heard this story from a one-eyed horseshoer in the Salmon River country of central Idaho. He and I were leaning into the campfire about ...

Five miles south of downtown San Francisco, within easy howitzer range of the Transamerica Pyramid, sits a monument to free-span roof system...

TEN (I heard this story on a bridge over La Honda Creek, in front of Ken Kesey's cabin.) "Like, the sun was in late Leo/early ...

Darius and I were in a motel room in Grand Lake, Colorado, waiting for the weather to come to its senses so we could pack into the high coun...

(I heard this story on the cemetery road above Cove, Oregon. We were on our way to visit the plot where Dewie Lovelace intended to spend ete...

Albert and I labored together on a project near Walden Pond, chopping Abraham Lincoln's wife's family farm into a subdivision. Al wa...