topic: TRAVEL  medium: TEXT It was the first Christmas Eve I had ever been outside Iceland and away from my family. Alex and I were driving up to Vermont in the Subaru Outback she had inherited from her father. I had never been up to Springfield to see where Alex […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT Flying somewhere over Greenland My Dearest Sons, I left this morning with a heavy heart. Usually your mother drives me to the airport with you in tow, you jump out once we’ve parked and hug me with an intensity lasting my whole trip. This morning it […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: text The old dog walks a few paces, sniffs the air, then turns and looks back, checking up on the woman. In the western sky a quarter moon hangs. The woman is a silhouette against the evening sky. I watch her slow steps; she is hunched over […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT We huddled together, a bunch of American tourists in an alleyway in Beijing. A small crowd of people surrounded us. They inhabited this traditional neighborhood, known as a hutong. Not many hutong are left. They have, for the most part, been razed by the government and […]

topic: BORDERS medium: TEXT as shared at a PenTales event themed “Great Expectations” Listen to the Story! As an annually optimistic person – that is to say – I am optimistic in September, every year, and then I go back to being a negative, fatalistic person for the rest of […]

topic: LOVE AND HEARTBREAK medium: TEXT as told at a PenTales event themed “Love and Heartbreak” I think of places like OSHO, the ashram of sorts, I believe, in India established by the fellow known in the 80‟s as the Bhagwan who, back in those days, would drive one of […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: TEXT, VIDEO as shared at an Event themed “Great Expectations” Road turns white. View of world tilts, the world at 45 degrees, or…? Blackness. Obfuscation. Brother, where art thou? In the hospital, realizations that there will no ensuing realizations, the epiphanies have already come, but they’re not […]

topic: TRAVEL medium: VIDEO