Let’s Get Lost
Where are the sands of yesteryear?
Columnist Jeff Schweers recollects his childhood on the beach, and how that love of sun and sea has waned over the years.
An essay for Pete’s sake
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 [...]
Brief excursions in time and space
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 [...]
Fooled but hopeful
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. [...]
Feeling the orange
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 [...]
Home at last
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 [...]
Ghosts of the lynched
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 [...]
Memories of a kingpin
Sheldon Adelson, a one-time tour operator out of Boston, who parlayed an annual electronics and computer convention into a casino empire sprawling the globe and became a conservative king maker [...]
Thanksgiving at Christmas
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 [...]
Miracles on hold
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. [...]
Chasing the Northern Lights
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 [...]
To the house Dalí built
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 [...]
“Let’s Get Lost”

Jeff Schweers, Author
Jeff Schweers is an award-winning political and investigative journalist based in Tallahassee, Florida. A New York transplant, he has a passion for food, culture and travel, which he covers in a blog also titled Let’s Get Lost.