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