Coyote Crossing

JSTOR Fairies, heed my plea

UPDATE. Got it! Thank you, JSTOR Fairy.

okay, not exactly a JSTOR thing. More like All*n Pr*ss. If anyone out there wants to use their connections to grab me a copy of Reassessment of Yucca brevifolia and Recognition of Y. jaegeriana as a

All My Internet Friends

Ever have the experience of thinking you know someone fairly well and all of a sudden they pull out a talent you didn’t know they had and display it and it’s obvious they have this whole side of their life you knew nothing about, and it’s like a

Amazon Honor System closing down

It’s a mysterious thing, and no one seems to be talking about it online, but account holders with the Amazon Honor System got a note this week in their email, saying, in part:

Beginning December 11, 2008, the Amazon Honor System will be

2009 Coyote Crossing Calendar

For those of you planning to schedule anything in the coming year, please consider doing so by way of writing the relevant scheduling info on a 2009 Coyote Crossing calendar, available to you now for only $24.95. Take a look … (continues)

Links

I’ve found a spot of connectivity and time to put together a couple of link lists, including an updated version of the blogroll from my former blog, Creek Running North. You’ll see them in the right column here. (If you’re using a screenreader,

Comments on!

I’ve heard from a few friends whose participation here I’d value that the password limitations in the Coyote Den kept them from taking part. So I’ve opened up comments on posts themselves, and we’ll find another way to incorporate the Den into our

Letters from the desert: Photos!

In the regrettable looming orgy of end-of-year buying, please don’t forget to cut me in!

Like many of my fellow Americans in this time of economic crisis, I have seen a number of investments fail to provide me with any return. There’s my grocery

Letters from the desert: CRN Archive accessible

A revamped archive of most of the posts from Creek Running North, and most of the comments thereon, is now available here.

Some of the comments seem to have gone missing. A server crash in July—which also ate a few blog templates—is the likely

Letters from the desert: Back

...and then off again, heading south to watch election coverage with The Raven. But I wanted to report that my Taos pal got great news: no sign of metastasis and expectation of full recovery. Go Team Us! More soon, and thanks to all of you who

Another quick tech note

Those of you who subscribe to Coyote Crossing by email will likely have noticed the old blog’s name on the email feed. I fixed it just now: thanks for your patience. And if you’re wondering why I took this route to apologize to email subscribers

RSS feed problems

There’s been a glitch in the RSS feed that has resulted in wonky in-feed links to pages with broken templates. That glitch should be fixed now. The feed address and everything else except the wonkiness will remain the same, so you don’t have to do

Quick pointers

1) I have a submission up at Postal Poetry. Go check it out.

2) On Saturday, October 4, I will be joining a few other desert writers at the Riverside Public Library, 3581 Mission Inn Ave Riverside, CA, in a reading to celebrate the release of

The den of the Coyote

I’ve been happy with the writing focus of this new joint, but I’ve missed the chat the old site’s comments held. And thus I’ve meant for the last few weeks to get a discussion area up and running here.

I finally did so this afternoon. I’d intended

Letters from the desert: Full Disclosure

Ed Abbey had a wife and kid in the trailer with him in Arches while he wrote some of Desert Solitaire. Despite the opening of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, the old fighting tomcat did not actually leap in through Annie Dillard’s window and knead her