I’ve been back a full week now. The bags are unpacked, laundry’s done. I even went to the grocery store. That was a bit of a mistake — in my excitement to eat home-cooked meals again I indulged my every whim at Whole Foods and therefore obscenely overspent on everything from butter to salad to [...]
There are times when your mind goes in wonderful directions; other times, less so.
I awoke in the wee hours of morning gripped by an awful sense of dread and the image of a dead deer flickering through my head like an old film reel. The deer I had actually seen earlier in the day on [...]
In the New Moon Cafe, which was voted “Best of the Best” way back in 1995. A map of the United States hangs on the wall behind the sweet tea dispenser. It’s faded and stained, but decorated with hundreds of pins. New York City, Atlanta, Dallas, San Fransisco, Charleston, Miami and every small town in [...]
Austin. Winnie. New Orleans. Mobile. Dauphin Island. Pensacola. Santa Rosa Island. Panama City. Tallahassee. Waycross. Aiken.
It’s a small, arbitrary list. Some of the places I stayed a night or two (or five) in, others I simply passed through, or stopped long enough to get off the bike to take a picture and fill up the [...]
I’ve been in New Orleans since Sunday afternoon, and though I’ve spent my days bicycling up and down familiar avenues, I’ve firmly kept my mind on the present.
But on my way home last night I couldn’t help myself, and I went many streets out of my way to pedal past a house at 1217 Magazine [...]
Lately I’ve tried to focus on slow movement. Not as in ‘the slow food movement’, but literally slowing down, stopping to look, smell the flowers, whatnot. This began as a exercise in strengthening my powers of observation, which have deteriorated over the years. I used to be quite good at catching the fine detail of [...]
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