How To Park in Florida
This is how you park your car in Florida when you either don't care about the consequences or you have more insurance than those around you. Anyone remember the parking…
Beauty in Motion
Gorodish explains the Zen of buttering a baguette to Jules in the 1981 film Diva On 29 May 2018 in Washington, DC, we are having an afternoon capuccino in the…
Haunted by a Yellow Landscape
I'm haunted by a yellow landscape that shows a cornfield in France, with a windmill close to the horizon. The time must be late in the afternoon on a late…
On Learning When and Where Things are in Season
As we ambled slowly through Hendersonville, NC, we came across the Curb Market on Church Street where locals were selling local things. The last time we had visited our friends…
That’s Only the Top
Harry Belafonte recalls telling a joke to Robert Altman: Early in our relationship, I told a joke and it became the metaphor for everything in our lives. These two musicians decided…
O’ Brother
My brother's birthday is coming up. He was born February 12, 1967 and he died, too young, on October 1, 1987, in a car accident, driving the same kind of…
Nashville Contrails
Early in the morning, on a Sunday, just before Nashville, the contrails range from spiky, precise lines in the far distance to smeared out white hashes in the blue sky.
Baby
I’m definitely back in the southern United States. After arriving from Rome in Atlanta yesterday I found myself with an appetite at ATL, and saw on concourse C a branch…
The Pope, Osama, and I
So, I’m cruising in this skinny and thin-skinned aluminium tube at 35000 feet, going approximately 500 mph on my way back to the United States from Rome on May 1,…
Musser Moves
We heard the music before we entered the courtyard at City Market around noon today. When we exited through the doors into the sunny outdoor space I could see in…