‘Poor New Mexico! So far from heaven, so close to Texas!’ Manuel Armijo, Mexican governor of the territory of Nuevo México, 1841 Places, all places—as in all the geographies on the...
Little souvenir I picked up in Estonia. Seems right as I plan a Siberian train trip. In Minnesota, on VERY cold days, we always said, ‘my god, it’s just like Siberia...
I am writing a book called “Up North.” Really. But more about that later. Today’s Up North is about next summer. Minnesota, Greenland, Lapland, Norway, Siberia. When I feel even a...
Part 2: Introversion My life as an Introvert has been just fine. As a kid I lived in the forest with the wolves…no no, I mean with my Minnesota family, a...
Part 1: Peripherality I am of an age…as I may have mentioned before. Let’s continue calling it ‘middle-old’ age. Mid-old. Actually the last couple of years have been a passage into...
If I am in the middle of a passage from one age to the next, the question is how to pass through it gracefully. And what’s on the other side. I...
This blog has a new category that will receive more than its share of posts. It is called Coming of Age. Yeah yeah, I know. That phrase has always been used to...
CNN’s special, San Francisco Shaken, is on. Reminds me… I had just moved to the San Francisco a couple of weeks earlier. Working at New Performance Gallery for Margy Jenkins and...
It’s 5:15pm Tuesday the 14th, Kuwait Time. Or 8:15am Albuquerque, New Mexico Time. When I started writing at 4 this morning I first referred to Kuwait as AmericaLand because all of...