Let’s Get Lost

Columnist Jeff Schweers recollects his childhood on the beach, and how that love of sun and sea has waned over the years.

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 [...]