ART DAY in Sioux Falls MORNING WITH SCULPTURE Phillips Avenue is busy this morning—what with the kids blocking foot traffic to stroke the tiger and her cub, so deceptively friendly—before she...
BACKROADS August 22nd. Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Cousin Vivian’s guest bedroom which I share with an overabundance of Elvis memorabilia. It’s so sticky stifling hot in Sioux Falls…not the cool rainy...
ROAD TRIP Is there any action in the world that more represents personal freedom than getting in your car at an hour you have selected with the knowledge that you are...
The nice thing about little out of the way hotels is that they have few high-tech controls on anything. So my room can be turned on freezing at night and a...
5:30 AM in Singapore. 3:30 PM in Albuquerque. And a day later here. Right? Thought my travels had made me very savvy about time zones and currency. Instead this crossing of...
This is another Harare memory from spring 2009. I am officially in Zimbabwe attending an art festival… with a personal side trip planned. A Zimbabwean dancer friend, living in NYC,...
I wrote this a month ago on my birthday. Have been trying to fix it ever since. I give up. Here it is. My first attempt to deal with all of...
In spring 2009, I traveled to the Middle East, Zimbabwe and Uganda. The next 2 blogs will offer short pieces about two aspects of the Zimbabwe experience. By then I should...
JourneysAFRICA My fascination with South Africa began a few years ago. And through the artists I met from the region and a visit to Mozambique I found myself increasingly curious about...
Curbside Dining in Beirut
In the spring of 2009, I traveled to the Middle East, starting in Jordan, then to the West Bank and Israel, then Syria and finally by taxi! up to Beirut. Before...
Category: THIS WORLD Tags: description, Lebanon, social commentary