Out Of The Fog
Sometime in January, I stopped writing on this blog. I managed to get out a December post and…
June 13, 2023
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Don’t Come Here
A few months ago, I got an email out of the blue from a producer for a travel…
June 15, 2021
Submergence
There’s this fleeting sensation when you first slip into the pool for a pre-dawn swim that swirls together…
March 12, 2021
Seventeen Days
On Day 10, my second Saturday morning in quarantine, I painted sunflowers. My family had gone off to…
November 30, 2020
On Letter Writing
When I started this blog so many years ago, I had never published any of my writing and…
April 16, 2020
An Ode To Vacation, Solitude, and Balance
“Aren’t you always on vacation?” I hear this constantly, often in half-jest, usually not. It’s hard to explain,…
October 21, 2019
How do we write about travel and migration?
Two years ago, soon after I’d returned from a reporting trip in Tunisia, I went to a party…
June 27, 2019
Six Years Abroad
At the beginning of January 2013, I sat on my bed in the cozy apartment I was staying…
January 29, 2019
The Adventure of the Albanian Party Boat
After an hour or two in a quiet Albania cove on the Karaburun Peninsula, swimming in the clear…
October 22, 2018
What Is It Like?
Back when I lived in Boston, our Fourth of July family tradition involved schlepping to the Old State…
July 14, 2018