andijan | uzbekistan It’s not the flocked wallpaper or the massive cream and gold Persian rug on the floor nor…
khiva | uzbekistan On our first trip beyond Andijan viloyati, we travel to Khiva. The tiled minarets in turquoise Majorca…
na’alehu | hawai’i Late afternoon, after writing, the sun gentle, I drive twenty minutes down an empty winding blacktop, along…
At the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Sayaka and I lag behind a group of bored middle schoolers who…
santa fe/new mexico My surgery is scheduled in a week. I look towards my operation with hope though I won’t…
For my 64th birthday, I planned to host a hanami party though all the plum blossoms on the trees in…
My town is a monochromatic palette of brown dusty ground, dry arroyos, tumbleweeds, leafless branches and adobe buildings, but the trees…
On a Sunday morning some weeks ago, our Broker tells us she just listed a house; needs a lot of…
It’s 4:00 a.m., pitchdark outside the vertical living room blinds. This Saturday morning, I’m apparently the only one up in…
seoul/korea December finds me in Seoul, oddly listening to the pumped in musac Sleigh Bells, I’m Dreaming of, and other nostaligic songs…
mont st. michel/france J’aime a me laisser regne lentement ou la serenite des lieux. -Pierre Jacques The lovely hotelier…
kengeri hobli/india Every morning on the gravel basketball court near the dorms of this institute where I am posted, on…