Travel

December 25, 2016

Merry Christmas, Friends

There was a surprising number of people at the trailhead this Christmas morning. Some of them wished me a Merry Christmas, which I returned. A few simply nodded and smiled. It was a beautiful morning, crisp and clear. Yesterday’s rain in the valley dropped as snow in the Catalina’s in front of me. These are Continue reading

Dogs, Memoir, Travel

Christmas, Dogs, Morning, Thoreau, walking

April 24, 2016

“Clueless but adaptable.”

Home as place, as an abode, has been self-consciously stripped from us. Truth be told, it’s a bit unsettling. Continue reading

Travel

Travel, Writing

June 14, 2014

A Note From Estonia.

I wonder, if at night, deep in their lair, theives feel misgivings at having troubled their victim? Continue reading

Life, The Examined Life, Travel

Travel

June 5, 2014

Reading and New Travels

“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering….” wrote Thoreau. Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Dogs, Reading, Travel

Creativity, dog-walking, Henry David Thoreau, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Travel

March 16, 2013