The Day Sleeper (South Pole retrospective)
[I came across this from my stash of “unpublished South Pole Journal notes” and figured enough time has passed that I can post it safely. Those of you who haven’t […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
Snow Day
[from last week] The storm built slowly. My years in New England taught me that the big ones always do. First, as always, there were the tiny flecks, the ones […]
On Purpose
[some musings on Christmas morning]We’ve all had that conversation: do you think we’re here for a purpose? A few times, when I’ve written something well, really captured lightning in a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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