Riding Solo
By now most of my Bay Area friends have ridden in a driverless car. I’m the holdout.
Keep readingA Havana Retrospective: Gut punch travel at its best
Most of my friends travel to relax. Occasionally, I do, too. But I also go places to be uncomfortable—and challenged, and maybe even changed. The…
Keep readingA Walk in Reverse: On Choice, Consequence and Historic Possibility
This week I will make history. I will do so by voting in America’s 60th consecutive federal election, a tradition first begun in 1789.
Keep readingThe Big Dilemma: A Retrospection in Two Parts, From Two Countries
It took a trip to Havana and a visit to the Galleria Continua there, where I saw the “El Buen Pastor—The Good Shepherd” for me…
Keep readingSeeing is Believing
Much as I wish that unseasonal heat was an anomaly, my recent trip to the Norwegian Arctic makes me think it’s probably the new normal…
Keep readingSpeechless in Svalbard: Losing and Finding My Arctic Lexicon
Imagine my surprise when I find out Mom’s booked me and my sister, along with herself, on a 12-day expedition cruise through the polar seas…
Keep readingTetherballs and Underpants: An Object Lesson in Playground Reticence
In the shade of an oak tree, glimpsed over a nominal fence, stands a lowly metal pole with a dirty yellow ball tethered from the…
Keep readingWho Made Age the Enemy?
Age is relative. It’s subjective, too. I know this because I just turned 58 and everyone has an opinion about it.
Keep readingReunion Therapy
I paid $230 and driven two hours and nine minutes for this exercise in social anxiety, I remind myself, as I step out from underneath…
Keep readingDoing Wall Time
Maybe you’ve heard of Cristiana? She is the 68-year-old daughter of the former Nicaraguan president, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro.
Keep readingOriginal Stone
If the Roman Emperor Hadrian were alive today, I wonder what he might have to say about the tumbled down remains of the 2nd century…
Keep readingBreaking Bounds
I know this is a blog about walls— But here’s a post about walking, instead. There’s a connection between the two. I promise.
Keep readingHadrian’s Wall Travel Diary
Stretched out before me is more rain gear than I ever imagined owning. Add to that socks and thermal layers of all manner—and blister protection.
Keep readingThe Big Bonk
I’ve hit a wall—not a real wall but an imagined one in the form of a computer screen capable of sucking up my soul, along…
Keep readingRiprap Retreat
The Gin and Tonic in my hand is sweating as am I. It’s after 5:00 p.m. and the sun is still blazing here in Oceanside, California.
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