The Most Beautiful Place in the World
Reading Time: 3 minutes We’re at nearly 12,500 feet, the most beautiful place in the world. At least today. I’m taking my Women’s Week
Tag: Womens Lives
Grit, Grace, and Love Letters
Reading Time: 4 minutes Human relationships are much larger than biology… … Read story…Grit, Grace, and Love Letters
Ukraine: What Would Eleanor Do?
Reading Time: 5 minutes She’ll know what to do. About life, about death. About suffering and happiness. Eleanor will know what to do about Ukraine … Read story…Ukraine: What Would Eleanor Do?
Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Reading Time: 3 minutes He 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 minutes My grandmother Daisy Potter reaches her hand to me from across time, from the beginnings of her life. She has
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
Why We Travel: The Fall of Rome & Other Empires
Reading Time: 6 minutes While I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost
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