Powell’s Bookstore: the Random Reading Refuge
Reading Time: 5 minutes If you don’t know who you are, take a look at your bookshelves. … Read story…Powell’s Bookstore: the Random Reading Refuge
Tag: Perspectives
Space Over Stuff
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is how my brain pictures Heaven’s Gate: a euphoria of high-altitude camaraderie; where you work harder for breaths of
Let’s Frolic
Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s just another example of Global World Irony. The universe is personally laughing at me because I thought I could turn myself into someone else, someone I’m not. And the world is, after all, dangerous and difficult and has a twisted sense of humor… … Read story…Let’s Frolic
Procida: Fantasy Island
Reading Time: 4 minutes Procida at last! Isn’t this what I have come for? Meeting my fantasy friends from the film Il Postino? It
Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge
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,
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
While I was climbing Mt. Aetna…
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I was climbing Mt. Etna… This is a phrase that bears repeating, and so I try to use it
Sorrento: Travel as Competitive Sport
Reading Time: 6 minutes The next day I am feeling that first bit of tourist glow, having somehow managed to find myself exactly where
The Lonely Adventurer
Reading Time: 4 minutes This could be the start of something big. Or maybe small. A small idea that brings you round again to