Not From Around Here
I hesitate when Roxanne asks me where I’m from. Around here, I get asked that a lot: grey beard, braided ponytail and red tennies – I don’t really quite fit […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
Twin Cities Recap
Oh hey – I completely forgot to post about my time back in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. No earthshaking events but a couple of lovely, quiet days catching up with old friends […]
A Word About T-Mobile Customer Service: Ahahahahahaha!
Remember that great joke T-Mobile told me last week about sending me a signal booster, so I could actually make calls from my home? Yeah. Another 45 minutes on the […]
A day in the Ellenverse, Appleton WI
There’s a feeling some places have. Warm hand-quilted comforters in a room of solid old oak, with the sound of music and laughter coming from downstairs. You’ve gone upstairs before […]
“What do I hear when I say I hear the call of the road?”
Rolling downhill, eastward across the Saint Croix river, I leave the bluegrass stations of Minnesota Public Radio behind, and and play bottom-end-of-the-dial roulette. I find Dar Williams, “Traveling Again”, and […]
Enroute Minneapolis
The last time I was in Minneapolis, I was a grad student, and I coined a new word for myself: horizontigo. You know ‘vertigo’, right? That disorienting spinning sensation when […]
The Bookseller of Jerusalem
So many things to still unpack out of my head from the Israel trip – I expect the stories are going to keep dribbling out over the next couple of […]
A Chat with T-Mobile
The conversation is predictable: first you wade through the cloying chatty voice response system and wait on hold for 10-15 minutes. Every 20 or so seconds, the Muzak rendition of […]
David Pablo Cohn 