There is no rhythm nor reason to it. Scattered traffic here and there and then long periods of scarcely a fellow human to be found. Season 2023 isn’t season 2022. The COVID 19 pandemic forced those with means to make …
Read: Bicycling with Butterflies
Sara Dykman rode her bicycle over ten thousand miles following the monarch butterfly migration, a journey captured in her “Bicycling with Butterflies.” Okay, makes my little cycling jaunts seem inconsequential. For those of you thinking you should read this book …
Adventure: The Aluminum Fruits of My Labor
Remember when I told you about how much money you could save by riding your bicycle instead of driving your car? Remember that? Charging yourself back at $.50 per mile. This rate is low, way low, but just because I’m …
Adventure: A Second Life
Back in the early 1990s, I was working as a photography assistant. Assisting was like a paid, second education that proved invaluable again and again. During a shoot in Palm Springs, California I met a hotelier who turned out to …
Read: The Longest Silence
If you love to fish go buy this book. If you love to fly fish, well, stop what you are doing and RUN to buy this book. Thomas McGuane’s “The Longest Silence,” is a book about fishing but it’s also …
Creative: Albania Journal 2023
You should stop what you are doing and make one of these. You should. You know me, always pushing the print angle, but for me, there is no completion of a project until it lands in print. Until then, well, …
Read: Celine
Just once I’d like to see a book end in disaster. After having just finished “Celine,” by Peter Heller, a book I enjoyed, I realized it was time for me to return to nonfiction. This book marked my third novel …
Adventure: Solitude
I would never advise anyone looking for solitude to come to Maine during the summer months. Maine is glorious, it truly is, but summer in Maine brings legions of people who use “summer” as a verb. There isn’t anything “wrong” …
Read: Two Nights in Lisbon
Someone asked if I had allowed my morning reading ritual to slip. It’s been a long stretch since I’ve posted about my current read. But no, rest assured, the books are still being consumed. However, I’ve been reading a few …