German Village, April

German Village, April

Photo: Pythaglio, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons   I stopped in Columbus to stretch my legs but that was where the trip really began. A brick sidewalk ran between red buildings trees shaking loose their white blossoms like soft snow. The street was empty....
The Distance I Could Carry

The Distance I Could Carry

Photo: Nate Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons   After the engagement ended I pointed my little Mazda east and started driving. Pennsylvania highways unspooled beneath me like a dare. In Philadelphia I walked through rooms where men once argued themselves...
The Dubliner in Every Town

The Dubliner in Every Town

Photo: “Przystań” by magro_kr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 There’s a Dubliner in every town,an Irish pub where a story finds you if you roam enough —all day, for what feels like forever,lost in jealousy and overthinking.Or you can live it, never writing a thing.You never know...
With apologies to the deer on I-76

With apologies to the deer on I-76

Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A hard November, again on a Tuesday,where office workers pass out holiday wish lists,(chain restaurant gift cards are good presents,and often requested as a small prize for a weekdone well). Traffic hums and...
The Surfers at Sagres

The Surfers at Sagres

Photo: amaianos from Galicia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons are a species all their ownamphibious, part Selkiegypsies of this watery realm               at the end of the worldworshippers of moon and tidesarriving in caravans, VW vanspiled high with boards and...
Sedona, AZ

Sedona, AZ

Photo: November Masinelli, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Once known for the colors of its cliffs,red sandstone contrasted with canyons of green trees, people photographtheir auras there now. I should have asked you to take a photograph with me,should have told...