On the Safe Side

We’d been advised by the agency, in our travel instruction packet, not to go outside our hotel after sundown. In … More

2019 in Wuhan

This is for the man in Wuhansitting by the roadside in the shade of the overpassdirty white undershirt and mussed … More

London/Derry

Our guide seats us on the time worn smooth stones of the ancient wallhuge and never breached defense ringing round … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 15, Get Your Motor Running

When I would hear my friends talk about what their children were going through to get their driver licenses, I … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 13, It’s a Small World

My voice changing, leading to my having to retire from the Honolulu Children’s Opera Chorus, and therefore losing touch with … More

NaNoWriMo: More About That Later, Chapter 7, The Good Old Summertime

If I’d been the right age to have experienced those long summer breaks of my childhood, where I’d have two-and-a-half … More

On the Edge

We approach the Russian Border traveling from Kirkenes, Norway by boat.  In order to come right to the borderline, we … More

When Will Rogers Met Donald Trump

Stuck here at home, unable to see my family anymore,lying in bed at night I think, with short, shallow breaths … More

Shanghai Tower

I wouldn’t get caught dead in Dubai, so probably then in the endthe tallest building I’ll ever have visited in … More

Death on the Nile

“We are considered by your country to be a third-world country.  They say we are 100 years behind you.  Do you think … More

The Old Tree

I’m headed for St. Mary’s Cathedral. The Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, as they call it in Gaelic.  I … More

Let It Snow Part III (500)

Once again my heart rate went up as I carried my Martin guitar through the gate.  They passed me along, maybe … More

Let It Snow Part II (500)

It was snowing hard in Cleveland, but they were able to land us.  My head pounded with the alcohol aftereffects from … More

Let It Snow (500)

It was an early flight, but when you’re young, you schedule those because you know it’ll be easy to get … More

And If You Ever Saw It

We are near the top of the world, Finnmark, Norway, and I’m in a van on the way to do … More

Shade (HS 147)

The people working inside look hardly savage,as the paler woman sitting sunning outsidesays to the other paler woman, both natives … More

Land of Aloha (HS 144)

It’s amazing to imagine that at one time Hawaiʻi had to be sold,a barely known collection of merely faraway map … More

Vast (HS 143)

I’m standing at the edge of the Sahara Desert,looking out upon sand and sand and sand as far as I … More

All I want

This is neon lit backstreetsbeckoning tourists to ogle belly-dancers,choose the one who will do more than simply shimmy.We arrive at … More

When You Don’t Speak the Same Language

We sip tea at a long table, waiting for another Taoist monk to speak to us. This will be the … More