I climbed a path I knew well from Valcanale through forest and past an abandoned ski area to the tumbled stones of a broad moraine. For another hour I picked my way up the moraine,Read More
Downtown Raška was bustling. I hadn’t expected this. I had become so accustomed to the quietness of life atop Kopaonik in the un-season — post ski season and pre summer — this sudden flush ofRead More
Kopaonik in June … thunderstorm wild. The thunderstorms glide in every day, amassing ever blacker as one waits in anticipation, the air growing thicker with heat and humidity, the insects furiously buzzing from flower toRead More
I spent most of winter 2017–2018 in South Wales. It rained every day except for the eight days it didn’t rain and the few days it snowed. One of the snowy days, I went forRead More
I visited Tallinn for one night on 8-9 February 2017, en route to St Petersburg and stayed in the mediaeval old town, which captured me visually. You can see why in the photos I tookRead More
I visited Tallinn for one night on 8-9 February 2017, en route to St Petersburg and stayed in the mediaeval old town, which captured me visually. You can see why in the photos I tookRead More
A man dressed in a clean but ill-fitting suit picking through a dumpster, plastic shopping bag in one hand. A 10-year-old boy, indistinguishable from any middle-class boy, approaching me with his hand out, demanding money,Read More
For two days the southerly wind called the jugo (scirocco) has been sweeping sticky humidity through this coastal Croatian village. When I walked into Poret this morning, for my daily caffè macchiato, the barista remarkedRead More
Being wide open emotionally, sensibly (of the senses), allowing all to penetrate to one’s soul, makes it difficult to live. . . . Dealing with the exigencies of daily living makes it difficult to beRead More
I opened my eyes. Often when you wake for the first time in a new place, it takes a few moments before the brain figures out where you are. Not this morning. The instant IRead More
As I explained to my father and brother and sister-in-law and my oldest nephew (the only one of the four who’d stuck around for our family video call) last February, it was as if IRead More