A weekend home

Peter has been home this weekend — he missed us! We have fed him and spoiled him as much as he’d let us, and now we have to get him up and going for the journey back to Boulder. I suppose I didn’t blog about it because of an excessive need to have him all Continue reading A weekend home

The end of summer

“Unattended baggage will be sold as slaves” is what I thought the loudspeakers were saying yesterday as we unloaded our stuff at the curb of the airport in Cincinnati. I think I have “wishful hearing,” combining what was actually said with a silly joke plaque I’ve seen in restaurants — “Unattended children will be sold Continue reading The end of summer

Traveling in my head

I’ve been reading Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia these last couple of months (I read lots of books at the same time; that’s why it’s taken me so long even though it’s a pretty short book). Therefore, I start wanting to head out to vast empty spaces that are hard to get to. I’m not the Continue reading Traveling in my head