Oct 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From CB— This week was my birthday. I turned seventy-seven. A DJ announced a song by the Indigo Girls. I heard their name as the Evening Overalls. Senility has its perks. I was born in 1941, two months before Pearl Harbor, of which I was unaware, being politically...
Oct 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From EF— Turning upside down in order to center. Doesn’t sound plausible, but bear with me. When we take our normal picnic to our ritual ocean-bluff spot, we look at the biggest rock out west and see the slim black silhouettes of seven or eight or nine black...
Oct 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From CB— The state of the world can make it difficult to write a blog. Countless topics offered, but with all the heavy ones—the SCOTUS hearings, climate change, perpetual war—I fear that everything that can be said has already been said: to say more has merely an...
Sep 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From EF— It rains, it rains, and the air is rich with ravens — swooping, quorking unsolicited instructions . . . Sounds like a good opening for an Irish song, but it’s just what came into my mind as I was beginning to think of this week’s blog. Today, Sunday, we’re...
Sep 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From CB— We’re the sort of tourists who can marvel at the scenery and traipse through every sort of museum, but we seem to gravitate toward paleolithic tombs, cemeteries, and various locales of atrocity. Today: an artifact recalling the Irish Famine. The workhouse...
Sep 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We’re reveling in our daughter Johanna’s pocket paradise in Tuscany, breathing the scented air and eating her amazing cookery, but we really paid our dues to get here. The three-airplane bounce from Dublin to Amsterdam to Milan was tedious, yes, but that was...
Sep 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From CB— I grew up in Council Bluffs, Iowa. All my life I’ve been trying to leave. Age fifteen, I discovered there was a world out there. Up till then, my tastes were cowboy movies, baseball, Boy Scouts, stories about sports or animals. Suddenly, I discovered...
Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From EF— On our way home from Milwaukee the GPS had us on interstates all the way, but I caught sight of Dixon, Illinois, on the map, and overrode the planned route. Conrad’s mother lived in Iowa, and during our Milwaukee years we’d make the trek to Council Bluffs...
Aug 21, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From CB— Coming toward the end of our Eastern tour—two events in Milwaukee, one reading in West Liberty IA, and then hi-tailing along I-80 homeward to rescue our fat cats from the kind hands of our beloved house-sitter. Actually, only one of our cats is fat; his...
Aug 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
—From EF— We’ve grown fond of starting our long-haul tours by leaving the Interstate after Reno and driving US 50 to south of Salt Lake City, where we pick up I 70 and keep barreling east. US 50 is a two-lane blacktop, beautifully maintained and majestically lonely....
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