Ocean

It really is blustery out by the sea. I’m prepared. Hearty breakfast, …warm outerwear, an umbrella… But it’s tough going. The wind inverts m...

Growing up in Poland, I considered the Baltic states as, well, Russian. Oh, sure. Once I started reading the papers, I knew that Estonians, ...

The northern skies of Europe: cloudy, with an occasional break in the layers of gray, but mostly dark still, even at 8 a.m. local time. I wa...

I’m turning my back on the isthmus. Just for a week. In a move that has been my move for years now (taking off the day after the last class ...

Last day of class. (sniffle) Me, bedecked in their generous impulse: Thank you. For a sweet semester from heaven. Outside, there is that lov...

Float with me today and tomorrow. I am in a spin of finishing the semester and looking with complete amazement at the sweeping strokes of sn...

Part I: the warm Several weeks back, Ed read a NYT article on Penna olives. ( Penna Olives are harvested and prepared in California. Stupend...