Category Archives: Non-travel

Any post that is NOT related to or directly about geographical travel

Reading is a form of travel.

Posted on November 4, 2018 by Traveler

I have not traveled much recently, but I have read.  Here is my take on the novel “The Executioner’s Song” by Norman Mailer, a book I have wanted to read for a long time and finally did between August and … Continue reading →

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Listening to a book isn’t reading it.

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Traveler

Remember story time? I don’t either.  But as a grownup, I’ve come to appreciate the value of being read stories to. When it comes to the effects on the brain, though, I’d guess that listening to a story being read … Continue reading →

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Visions of Christmas

Posted on December 8, 2017 by Traveler

I’ve put together a couple of videos set to pretty holiday music and tossed them up on YouTube: here (an old-fashioned Perry Como take on a familiar tune set amidst a display at a doughnut shop) and… here (another visit … Continue reading →

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Angel

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Traveler

Halloween is nearly upon us. Yet how far this intriguing holiday of lore has traversed from the Halloween of our pasts… (apparently there was a time I was an angel, and there I am, looking somewhat numb, lost, and not … Continue reading →

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Sam

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Traveler

About 18 years ago, I felt inspired to write a strange little essay about Sam Shepard.  I don’t recall now why I composed it or what I had planned to do with it, if anything.  Ultimately, I did nothing with … Continue reading →

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Babysitting by Willard

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Traveler

One of my favorite posts on the entire Internet — an excellent piece titled “If 70s Moms Had Blogs” — takes me hilariously back to the long-gone good-and-bad old days of the 1970s.  I’m somewhat of a nostalgia addict, so posts … Continue reading →

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Frank

Posted on April 7, 2017 by Traveler

I’ve written several times in this space over the past few years about death and dying and those I’ve lost.  Unfortunately, on April 1, there was another death, this one unexpected. His name is Frank, and he was the longtime … Continue reading →

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Bedtime Stories

Posted on September 30, 2016 by Traveler

A recent article by Pagan Kennedy published in the New York Times titled “The Insomnia Machine” got me thinking about my own struggles with sleeplessness. I’ve always favored the night hours over the day.  They are often my best hours … Continue reading →

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More Musings on (Not) Writing

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Traveler

This post may not have a point to it, but that’s the point. I’ve been writing since I was a kid. Like many kids, I wrote stories — sometimes for school, sometimes just to amuse my siblings or to get … Continue reading →

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A Musing on the Writing Life and the Fit Life

Posted on August 14, 2016 by Traveler

In addition to being a Writer, I am a Fitness Enthusiast.  There are at least three obvious parallels between the disciplines of Exercise and Writing. 1. They both operate on momentum.  It is lore among some writers that Ernest Hemingway … Continue reading →

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