Swim Lesson

I didn’t know anyone when I got here, but Odesa is famous for its writers and artists, my kind of people. So I searched the web, looking for stories, written in English, by Odesa authors. Then I wrote to them, asking if they would be up for an interview.

Charles Bowden reading an excerpt from "Blood Orchid"

This story is four interviews, with neighbors and friends, about the current political situation in the United States. I was feeling fairly frazzled and wanted to talk to other people about how they felt, so I started close to home.The photo above is an original silk screen by Leia Bell, for sale at Ken Sanders’ Rare Books in Salt Lake City, Utah.I plan to keep posting stories for a while, so if you’d like to donate please press this button: Donate

My thoughts on our current situation.

Reports from the Sonoran Desert, sixty miles south of Tucson, in March of 2005.

A trip to Afghanistan in November of 2001.

My first overseas story.

Swim lessons at the Sandwich Aquatic Center in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

An attempt to forget who I am.

a short stint in commercial radio