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Sometimes a Ghost

I live between NYC and a small mountain town in New Mexico. I write and make pictures and try to listen to ghosts and other living things.

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  1. Issue · Sep 11, 2026

    This Day Today (opens the original)

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    I was going to write about Pinocchio. In fact I did write about Pinocchio to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Carlo Collodi’s birth and his Pinocchio. And you know if you know, I love Pinocchio but then this morning the sky is blue and it is September 11th commemorating the day the II at the bottom of Manhattan came crumbling down in weeks of smoke and ash and I was there and have never written about it. New York City is where I’ve lived for nearly 30 years. Lived and worked and became me an

  2. Issue · Aug 31, 2026

    hello to you of summer’s end (opens the original)

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    I keep taking words out of my sentences like they’re library books. I put them somewhere else and forget to bring them back. Very early Monday morning, the last day of the month of August and the birthday of someone I used to know. Crickets are still typing their letters to dead grandmothers or whatever that sound still is or maybe it is me, trying to remember.The sky is the pink sky, I am pink, sunflowers are everywhere, now birds are awake too. Hi Birds. Hi Substackers!If you came today to hea

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