I am from Montana, a geological and linguistic neighbor to South Dakota. Everything you have written here resonates with my heart. I have always had an intense interest in family bibles, boxes of black and white pictures, handwritten letters in...

I agree with the picture on the post. I write very well in a space where I have an interesting and flexible observation point. Sometimes that's on a seat riding a train or perhaps it's at my desk. The physical space itself is transmutable depending...