Photo: Faith Palermo In 1817, a sea serpent appears in Gloucester harbor. On August 14th, creature breaches water, skin kisses air, and is witnessed. The Linnaean Society of New England, a board designed to record and interpret landscape, collects testimony, and the...
Photo: C messier via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 4.o O lovely red mullet, Anna said to the fish as Vassilis of the scraggly eyebrows in the agora, Chaniá’s covered market, held it up for her to inspect, cleaned and ready to wrap in paper once she agreed on...
Photo: TheWhitePelican via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 3.0 Anna Gavigan looked out past the gravel parking lot, across the murky green pond at the Blue Whale of Catoosa and thought about how she needed to be studying. The old concrete whale was beached on one...
Photo: Ibai1984 via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 We’re hiking 25km uphill in a downpour and Mom’s in a mood. Day three on the Camino. No matter what sort of scale the map shows for our route, the reality of the elements doesn’t hit us until it really hits...
My husband and I crawl along the 101 northbound on our way to see author David Sedaris read at UCLA. We treated ourselves to events like this before Mom descended into dementia. But lately, my cell phone has me jumping, and Mom’s facility doesn’t call to share good...
Photo: F Delventhal via Wikimedia Commons. License: CC BY-SA 2.0 overwhelmed by the sights and sounds at jorge chavez airport fast castellano coming from everyone with cumbia in the background machu picchu advertisements everywhere my mind is trying to process...
