A Day Like Today
It’s hard to complain on a day like today. Autumn – what little we get here in Palo Alto – but autumn nonetheless, resplendent. The ginkgos a brilliant yellow-green-red that […]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
Three A.M.
Does seem to be the canonical time for writers – all those songs that begin with being wide awake at three a.m…. In my case, it’s just that the slide […]
The Grind
No really – I’ve been working, I promise. Sure, all I’ve been writing about is gallivanting around with pilots and students and wandering the backstreets of Accra in search of […]
Yes.
I had no idea where we were. Somewhere inside the triangle of Labadi to the south, Ring Road to the east, and Oxford St. to the west. Where the six […]
Kpong Airfield
Morning, with a crazy cacophony of birds outside the window of the spartan room that’s my lodging here at Kpong, and I’m grappling with how to tell this story. Or […]
Schiphol and Beyond
I guess there are some places you choose not to know. Popping out under the cloud cover over the Dutch coast, I had the strange sensation of being somewhere that […]
Here we go…
This time, I didn’t even need to get to the airport. It started halfway down the stairs, leaving the office. Turned the corner on the landing, and the melody for […]
A Change of Season
Woke up early on Sunday – well, early by Pacific Standard Time – and headed up the hill for a walk; I needed some time alone to consider what I’d […]
The Man in the White Suit
Hey – are you doing NaNoWriMo this year? Yeah, sorry – not me. Last year was enough. But a last week, before November had properly started, Tom Wolfe came to […]
David Pablo Cohn 