“Quick! Ask him!” I quickly pulled the car over, and K stuck her head out, startling the poor gentleman with her one sentence in Italian: “Dove il Pendante Torre?” I’m not sure that even qualifies as a sentence. I’m sure somewhere along the line, we missed syntax, grammar and vocabulary. The accosted gentleman looked at …
If you live in a retirement facility, no matter how nice, the days become an endless progression of sameness. Your neighbor hobbles by in a walker on her morning walk. The same faces appear across the dinner table night after night telling stories you’ve heard more times than you care to count. So, when we …
COREY TARATUTA co-hosts the Irish Fireside Podcast and Blog. The Irish Fireside has been covering Irish travel and topics of Irish-American interest since 2006 and just celebrated its 100th Episode. When not trekking around Ireland, Corey is a freelance writer and designer, and blogs about living and working from the road at On the White …
“A child at Preah Vihear in Cambodia. Preah Vihear is being fought over by Cambodia and Thailand. Around a dozen soldiers were killed near Preah Vihear in the month around my visit.” Read more on Gary’s Arndt’s blog, Everything Everywhere.
Nearly thirty years ago. I went off on a Zen sesshin, or week’s retreat, at a Benedictine monastery situated in the hills bordering the edge of Wuerzburg in the winemaking region of Germany. The sesshin ended with an early breakfast on Easter Sunday. I walked down to the train station with my backpack full of …
Okay, so it’s not the most in-focus, well-composed photo in the world but I took it at night while inside a van with darkened windows. The driver told me I could take pictures, but if any of the pimps on the street saw me, they’d break the window and abscond with my camera. Hence the …