In the early 1920s, Edna Brush Perkins, a Cleveland socialite, and her pal Charlotte decided to come to California. “Charlotte and I knew the outdoors a little. Though we were middle-aged, mothers of families and deeply involved in the historic struggle for the vote, we sometimes looked at the sky.” Gazing at a map, Edna […]
DEATH VALLEY
HEART OF FLESH

I’m at a certain Hot Springs Resort outside Death Valley and let’s say the word “resort” is used loosely. It’s the kind of room where you walk in and immediately think “A lot of people have had sex here and most of them smoked.” Who cares, though. The room gives on one side into a […]