House is rented, we're back in Switzerland. Picture taken by Chang yesterday afternoon:

We've started working on an ad campaign for our new novella, Rilke's Ghost, fashioned along the lines of our previous campaigns, add...

Alex Hogan, the influential editor of Gay Flash Fiction , wonders where we are. Here we are, Alex, in the Valais, the Swiss region; this w...

...with the Bietschhorn, the mountain that dominates our region, in the background.

The view from the chalet over the Valais -- yet again (yesterday evening):

We returned to France today. This was Bürchen, kissed by the autumn, yesterday. Photography by Jason Yoon, as always. In the meantime, ...

(There's a surreal quality to these cows, isn't it?)

Photo by Jason Yoon

View of the Valais from the Chalet. Picture by Chang

This is, as always, Bürchen. It's dandelion season:

We arrived in Bürchen, CH, three hours ago, and it was 20° centigrade outside (27° below in the valley). The Alps looked like the Himala...

Auguste Baud-Bovy (1848-1899)

...and the weather was like this.

Not all is lost, folks... ...up here on the alm in Bürchen, Switzerland, 1,600 meters above the White House and 6,000 kilometers to ...