These are by Jim Stanger, unless otherwise noted. I don’t identify people in photos unless they tell me it’s cool, so that’s why I’m not doing so here. feel free to ID yourself in comments if you like.
I will, however, ID Louie — the blond
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But then what else is new?
Days like today I feel like a loose-knit sweater with a stray bit of yarn tied to him. The farther away we get, second by second, the more I … (continues)
Day after tomorrow we move the boys to the new place. It’s an auspicious day, kind of. Or at least one in which making new happy memories is appropriate and fitting.
I can still feel him leaning against my chest to say hello to this Black Hills
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Photo by Sharon Leach, taken May 1996
We slept out on the open desert the night before, after driving from the Bay Area through Reno and up the east shore of Pyramid Lake. We took the road as far as the truck would let us. The four of us walked
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