Grit, Grace, and Love Letters
Reading Time: 4 minutesHuman relationships are much larger than biology… … Read story…Grit, Grace, and Love Letters
Tag: Ancestry
Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Reading Time: 3 minutesHe drives because I can’t put down my book, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming by Inara Verzemnieks. I realize the ancestral farm she is writing about is not far away… … Read story…Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
1880’s Andover, Dakota Territory
Reading Time: 8 minutesMy grandmother Daisy Potter reaches her hand to me from across time, from the beginnings of her life. She has
Memoir in Progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes“Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” Ortega y Gasset On
News Article
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Taos News featured a story about my family letters, part of the book I am currently working on… Love
Why We Travel: The Fall of Rome & Other Empires
Reading Time: 6 minutesWhile I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost