“What did you learn from your students this year?” It was lunchtime and I was sitting with two women I’d seen throughout the weekend but hadn’t spent any time with. I was tired, I had been at the book store until 2am the previous night and I hadn’t slept particularly well. It was the last …
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I recently picked up a contract for some travel writing about Seattle, my home town. It’s guidebook style writing, but there’s an interesting twist to the approach and I was keen to tackle the cultural pieces. I’ve lived in Seattle for nearly 20 years and while I’m not in tune with everything that’s the new …
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Our room was in the basement and the windows looked out onto a forest. It was quiet so I slept late and I was surprised to see sunshine slicing through the blinds. When we’d arrived the afternoon before, the fog was rolling in from the ocean and the temperature was dropping, dropping, dropping, but it …
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1. Today, I boarded a cruise ship. A really big one — she holds 2900 passengers and, with her massive crew, is a floating city of about 5000 people. There are multiple restaurants on board and shopping and a casino and a gym and several swimming pools. There’s a nine hole golf course and a …
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Taking pictures was not allowed inside the monolithic church at St. Emilion. I thought I did not mind this because while I was gobstruck by sheer effort of building this cathedral into — and out of — solid rock, there was actually not very much to see. But then I turned around and underneath one …
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There’s a pause because I couldn’t remember the next chord. It’s one take, only, the first only, no sheet music. Sing along, why doncha?