- Santa Maria
A good luck night, a rainstorm that bore on its staccato
the possibility that the ponds would fill with runoff

- Medicine Man
Dealing with gout and uric acid

- Seguro que si
The Ten Commandments, semantics,
and homosexuality

- On writing
The tense, moody lives of verbs

-Zapata Wild
What the starling told me

- Maverick Ranch Notes
A rufous hummingbird sighting;
rethinking the healing of livestock

- Falcon Lake roundup
Little relief from Hurricane Claudette

- Fort Merrill
A pleasant end to the hurricane