Juan del Llano & the Dumpster of No Return
His wife took one look at it and said, “You’re a screwball!” The appellation from darkest Iowa in the ’50s was a primal zinger, and he felt it. Why couldn’t she have landed on “visionary,” he...
View ArticleJuan del Llano & the Braising of the Snakes
Things were going well enough for Juan del Llano. The passing of his mother, maddened and dangerous in her final years, had smoothed him out and changed his face a little. He used the modest cash from...
View ArticleKitt Peak Farewell
Rediscovered footage here! This is a short panoramic sweep of the horizon from an overlook on Kitt Peak, Arizona on April 11, 2012. I scattered some of my mother’s ashes there a few days after she...
View ArticleMy Latest at Medium
Same text, different context Just letting you know that I’ve republished another JHFARR.COM post at Medium. You can always access everything I post there via “Medium” in the navigation menu, of course,...
View ArticleIt’s Coming
Taos Mountain late this afternoon before I cooked the steak The new book is almost ready. It’s a chronological collection of blog posts that tell the story of my mother’s chaotic last years under the...
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