Domiciles

1. •present: Lovecraftian post-industrial city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island
   

2. •2004-05: overpriced sylvan retreat of Rehoboth, Massachusetts
   

3. •1999-2004: vile suburban inferno of Phoenix, Arizona
   

4. •1992-99: all-too-much-missed city of Boston, Massachusetts
   

5. •1987-92: historic East Side of Providence, Rhode Island
   

6. •1985-87: urban near-paradise of San Francisco, California (not that I’d go back if you paid me)
   

7. •1984-85: former Presbyterian seaside resort of Pacific Grove, California

Writer (of various sorts of fiction and, as professionally required, copy). Editor/copyeditor/proof reader (my own and others’ writings). Reader (catholic, if not Roman). Designer (as far as it goes). Webmaster (no, really). Seamster (out of practice these days). Gardener (presently sans garden, alackaday). Listener (to music, to friends, to crazy people). Commenter (not so much, really, though I do talk, perhaps too much, to the cats). Drinker (put-hair-on-your-chest* black coffee mostly, spiced with the occasional Earl Grey, pinot grigio, Campari, gin, or Irish whiskey). Smoker (I know, all right, so just be quiet). Dreamer (actually, I almost never recall my dreams). Ivy League grad (it’s true!). Tattooed and pierced person (you can take that on trust). Gay man.

Autobiographer? (not just no, fuck off and die no)

* not that that’s worked for me, dammit

1. •1957-83 (with breaks as noted below): twee artist colony of Carmel, California—yeah, born and raised. Want to make something of it?
   

2. •1976-78: Classic Maya archaeological site of Palenque, Chiapas, México
   

3. •1975-76: not-yet-drowned urban wilderness of New Orleans, Louisiana
   

4. •1964-66, 67-68: Anglo-Irish big house rural idyll near Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford, Republic of Ireland

photo: H-D Honscheid, Portland, OR, December 2007

photo: Betty Harrington, Little Compton, RI, November 2008