Let’s Get Lost

My father has been dead for three years now. He died at the age of eighty-one of a stroke in South Carolina. Lately, though, he’s come up often. More than [...]

When that short window of relief from the COVID-19  pandemic slammed shut, that hopeful possibility of moving about the cabin again burst like a bubble and we all went back [...]

In late spring — April, to be precise — a group of us gathered at the Florida beach house of a married couple, mutual friends of ours. We were celebrating. [...]

I was very near the end of Viv Albertine's wonderful memoir about the British punk scene and its aftermath, "Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.", marveling at [...]

All journeys begin at home. And, with any luck and a fair headwind, that is where the best of them end. Sometimes the journey home can be rough, beset with [...]

Standing under a monolithic steel slab, one of hundreds suspended from the polished wooden ceiling of a giant multi-level square pavilion on a hill overlooking Montgomery, Alabama, I crane my [...]

As the year draws to a close, it’s customary to look back over the previous 12 months, recall both good times and bad, compose top 10 lists and put it [...]

Sitting in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida on a Saturday afternoon in November, I find myself at the very epicenter of America’s most popular holiday resort and entertainment complex. [...]

We'd talked many times about seeing the Northern Lights together. But we'd had a few spats of late — it was 2017— and after returning from a whirlwind trip to [...]

Two and a half hours north of Barcelona, along the rugged Costa Brava, is an exquisite jewel of a fishing village that I am reluctant to share with anyone for [...]

The tiny principality of Andorra inadvertently wound up in the news over a recent controversy stirred up by President Donald Trump comparing COVID-19 mortality rates in the United States with [...]