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 […]
One of those days
It was one of those days. An Indian summer Sunday, up before dawn with just enough that needed to get done to prevent me from feeling like the day was […]
And this is why I don’t like reading books
[I actually wrote this months ago, in the middle of summer, but couldn’t bring myself to actually post it.] …. Yes, as I reach for the “publish” button, I’m cringing. […]
Improbabilities
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well” – Henry David Thoreau I do write about myself a lot, don’t […]
Not caught up
Haven’t even written up the last bits of Albuquerque – so much more to tell. What happens to stories that never get told? I seem to worry about that a […]
Trinity
I think we all must be here for different reasons. The elderly gentleman with the Navy cap and decorations – this bomb may have saved his life, along with those […]
David Pablo Cohn 