FORGOTTEN MOWINGS, Recollections of a Lawn Boy in a Small Town in Western Massachusetts, Population 350, is a collection of short-short stories about life in rural New England and the observations of the lawn boy as he cuts grass in a really small town.

A collection of short stories of clarity while lost among the shadows of the Amazon. Rainy Season, 1994 Last night I realized I'd been lost for months: crossing the closed territories of Venezuela, Columbia, Brazil, Guiana, Suriname; paddling the tributaries and backwaters of the Orinoco, Negro, Coppename, Gran, and Maroni; spending weeks at a time off the map, places where there are few roads, almost no communication, and everything closes for siesta-the Amazonas, Vichada, Roraima, La Gran Sabana-a world where the information one discovers by chance is more up-to-date than any official...