Waiting for Hank Aaron: Reflecting on 1968 Fifty Years Later
I waited, listening to AM radio, for Hank Aaron to hit a home run. We were a baseball family–Minnesota Twins’…
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A Cowboy and a Good Horse: West Texas
The sun is in my eyes when I first meet the horse wrangler, which might be why he doesn’t fit…
Conversations in Greece: Politics and Quiet Spaces
“Two hours in a dark room where no one talks to me.” That’s what I wanted after my return from…
Jewish Paris: Falafel, History and Remembrance
This post is Part 3 of a series on alternative Paris. Links to parts 1 and 2 are below the…
The Paris Catacombs: I See Dead People
This post is Part 2 of a series about Alternative Paris. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, How to…
Two Tales of Dublin
I lost my map of Dublin in the toilet of the restaurant where I ate breakfast. Or maybe I left…
County Cork History and Weighing in
My morning began with an early delivery of beer kegs, rolling down the sidewalk to the door of the pub…
Oslo: The New Big Smoke
London has cleaned up its act, in terms of ye olde air polluters, and so the old nickname “The Big…