The Reckon Yard Podcast

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s about what actually counts as real work, why we’re so quick to look down on somebody else’s labor, and a two hundred year old definition of work I think it’s time to argue with. Give it a listen.
Back in Duwali Bottoms Texas. Things get hot for the McAfees, and we follow a walnut tree through generations, all the way to a shelf sitting in Tony’s kitchen right now. Grab a chair.

New episode of The Reckon Yard is up. This one’s got a broke down Avalanche, a Tulsa cemetery, a Volkswagen collection I stumbled into, and a lesson about spinning plates I’m still chewing on a year later. Give it a listen.
Also, new chapter of Duwali Bottoms Texas is up. Sheriff Garza’s got a car worth talking about, an old friend running out of chances, and Tony’s about to find out Amber doesn’t scare easy. Grab a chair.

I recall an eventful week in Southern California with lots of milestones and folks that show up.

I drove through tent city on the Fourth of July and couldn’t get it out of my head. The SoCal run, the anxiety, and what happens when you start doing the math on your own life at a red light.
This week on Duwali Bottoms :
A mother knows when to talk and when to just hold on. A father shows up with ribeyes and an agenda. Things are about to get complicated in Duwali Bottoms.

I take you through the particular fury of modern travel, the quiet rage my father carried like a second engine, and what my wife accidentally revealed about the distance between the two men. Also: what Enya has to do with any of it.
This week on duwali Bottoms Texas
Three people. Three mornings. One small East Texas town that keeps drawing everybody back whether they mean to come or not. Season Two of Duwali Bottoms Texas is rolling, and the ground is shifting beneath all of it.