Lay Claim to Your Own Life: Reading and Writing
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading and writing are my addictions. I read to escape. I read to go deeper, to focus, to travel. I
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading and writing are my addictions. I read to escape. I read to go deeper, to focus, to travel. I
Reading Time: 8 minutes My grandmother Daisy Potter reaches her hand to me from across time, from the beginnings of her life. She has
Reading Time: 12 minutes February 16, 1945. Iwo Jima The last letter I have from my father to my mother was one she carefully
Reading Time: 6 minutes The day fades as we drive our VW camper over the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Selma. We’ve just left Montgomery,
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was an adventure. There was a day recently when we lost a ski while I was teaching my ski
Reading Time: 6 minutes While I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I was climbing Mt. Etna… This is a phrase that bears repeating, and so I try to use it
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I don’t know what to do first, I just watch people and pick out someone who looks like they
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next day, a Monday, arrives like a hangover. It is slightly rainy and gray, and everyone is gone. There
Read story…Ischia: Elena Ferrante Goes to Paradise. And so do I, alas.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Naples has welcomed American Sailors since time immemorial (at least since World War II) and it still welcomes everyone, that
Read story…Gritty Naples: Full of life, but watch your wallet