Turkey Shoot
Ah, Earth Day. What better to do than rise before dawn and stroll through the countryside with a friend, marvelling at the wonders of nature and admiring the beauty of […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
Homeward Bound
It’s always the tail end of a trip that gets lost, isn’t it? In Amundsen’s “To the South Pole”, he devotes 284 pages of narration to the southbound journey, and […]
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
You know how I worried about Oberlin and Kenyon’s glorious spring days lulling Miranda into a false sense of Midwest weather? Not going to have that problem here in the […]
Grinnell
“When I try to think of Iowa, I think ‘The place with the Mormons? Wait no, the other one.’” Something, if you believe in higher forces, did not want us […]
Oberlin
If spring settled in on Kenyon with a sunrise, it blew into Oberlin on a gale. We were woken before dawn with the sound of wind and heavy rains, and […]
Kenyon
Houses are made differently here. They seem to turn inward, tucking their skirts up under their feet against the winter, waiting for spring to come. The sun has been up […]
East by Northeast
Okay, okay – yeah, the roadtrip blog’s been pretty damned quiet lately. Sorry, no roadtrips. A wise writer friend of mine once warned me that “Blogs are a of lot […]
Beth
So there I was, about five years ago, sitting on the living room floor of Brian and Gretchen’s house in Walsenburg with Beth. Beth Watson, kid sister of my high […]
Stories
The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing. — Archilochus, 700 BCE. Most days, I feel a bit insecure about being a dilettante. I mean – […]
Published!
So hey – I got published in the Paris Review Daily!!! Very psyched, but my first reaction was “Oh crap – I need to go and write something witty and […]
David Pablo Cohn 