Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
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Pandemic pandemonium: scrambling the best laid travel plans (June 2020)
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 With the Audi Q5 packed as though we were never returning home, we headed northeast towards St. George, » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival: February 2020
Saturday, February 22, 2020 For the past decade, the Sedona International Film Festival has occupied a permanent place on our yearly calendar » Read more
Northern Raja Ampat on Damai 2: February 2020 (Part 2)
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 After an idyllic week at Papua Paradise, it was on to the main course, a 10 day cruise » Read more
Eyes Wide Open: Looking at 2019
2019 was an active, hectic, and stressful year. The simmering concerns I had been harboring in recent years about my mother’s living » Read more
French Polynesia, Fall 2019 (Part 3-Fakarava)
Wednesday, October 2, 2019 Rangiroa to Fakarava A short afternoon flight to Fakarava and a need to stay out of the water » Read more
French Polynesia, September 2019 (Part 2-Rangiroa)
Friday, September 27, 2019 Rurutu to Tahiti to Rangiroa This travel day began early, at 5:45 am, with Greg’s voice in the » Read more
French Polynesia, September 2019 (Part 1-Tahiti & Rurutu)
Thursday, September 19-Friday, September 20, 2019 Tahiti In July 2018, driving home from LAX from our first trip to French Polynesia (FP), » Read more
To Hell and Back: Hadestown and a medical maelstrom with Mama (April-June, 2019)
The soundtrack for spring was Hadestown, a folk operatic musical reimagining of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth. Back in December, on a » Read more
Sedona International Film Festival 2019: Silver Anniversary
Overheard at the start of this year’s Sedona International Film Festival, directed to festival director Patrick Schweiss: “Is this a good film? ‘Cause » Read more