Ocean

Yes, it’s pretty here, in countryside, but I really want to come face to face with a fjord. This is not easy if you’re determined to use pub...

I have a six hour ride on the train that links Oslo with the western shores of Norway. I sit in a car with several dozen others. Most everyo...

I’m sitting on a flight next to a sea captain. Tugboats – he has sailed tugboats around the world for more than thirty years. I hardly spent...

We leave our magnificent little rooftop dining place, the Doga Balik (see previous post) – the one with painted blue chairs, and fresh fish ...

Yes, one foot in Europe, the other in Asia. Arrived this afternoon, staying overnight and then returning to northern Europe. Tired from hour...

I'm off and away. For a variety of reasons, it is an unusually long trip -- even by my standards. There are work considerations, traveli...

Some people really make a fuss about leaving. They pack forever and take too much - clothing, work papers, reading material -- you name it. ...

Those are topics I may have taken on had I the time on this day. I expect that in the weeks ahead, I'll drift back to all three. In the...

Here, we’re nearing our destination. Take a photo, will you? You’re switching lanes! There are bumps in the road! There are splattered bugs ...

There is something brutal about this hugely democratic movement of people across America’s highways. It’s morning, I am at a Holiday Inn in ...

Come on, put on a cap so we can take a photo of you – it’s your school, your celebration as well! It’s your JD &MA! No, I’m here fo...

(toddler’s voice) Mama? Mama? Mamma is getting her degree. You’ll see her in a while. (elsewhere:) My son took seven years. Toward the en...

It’s a week-end thing, this graduation stuff. And that’s good. Some of us travel far to see the square hats on our kids’ heads. May as well ...

A reader commented – doctors practice medicine; artists do not practice art. Makes sense. But I do support the practice of supporting ...

I would say an eight-year relationship is pretty hefty, wouldn’t you? It gives you time to make friends and get bored a little. You develop ...

Tomorrow, I’m off to watch a college graduation. Of the youngest one. Yep, I’m that old. I can’t pay attention to age implications. I am jus...

One person’s emptiness is another’s bliss. Isn’t it always like that. I biked up to the Law School and was immediately reminded how it feels...

I am waiting for someone at an outdoor café on State Street. A young man, sitting on a bench nearby, looks at Isthmus want ads, then makes a...

Please don not correct me. I know that baby geese are not called geeslings. [They're goslings, aren't they?] But geeslings sounds so...

Today is the kind of day you’re glad not to be hiking. Or biking. Cold rain, gray skies. But yesterday, now that was a day! Perfect for the ...