Roadside beauty in the ordinary Traveling cross-country is an amazing experience that I love to talk to random people about. Road trips are a way to see different parts of the country, interact with different individuals and see. Yes, just see. You get to look and dissect what […]
Somebody’s watching me: Street Art in Australia Happy day! It is day 292 of the current year. Back in 1985, the Norwegian band A-Ha went to number 1 on the US Singles chart with the song “Take on Me.” The song is not a bad one. What propelled […]
Happy place: Large Pacifica Waves and doggies sauntering about I have always declared Hawaii to be my happy place. I dream of Hawaii and I feel happy and at ease. When I am in Hawaii, I don’t want to leave. I have been fortunate to have visited Hawaii […]
For the love of Lighthouses: Finding one’s path forward I have always loved lighthouses. Even when I lived in the South Bronx, where I only knew the blocks around me, I dreamt of lighthouses. Once when stranded abroad due to a hurricane, I searched for a lighthouse in […]
Riding the Walls of Waves in Ocean Beach The ghosts push from above The walls loom large The climb never ceases Don’t ride that wave Push on through Own the wave Seize the journey Push through the hot path Find that sweet spot Don’t ride that wave Push […]
Stand tall and smell the world When you travel from city to city, country to country, your sense become heightened. It is as if you are Spiderman swinging from one side to the other. Our eyes take in the splendor of the architecture, the fashion, the people. We […]
Forever more we are intertwined: Waves Foaming in Half Moon Bay Waves rise Waves flow Waves foam Waves retreat But the waves don’t erase your footprints You are forever imprinted in my heart, brain and soul Waves rise Waves flow Waves foam Waves retreat But the waves don’t […]
Missing my sense of snow My move out to San Francisco means I have to make peace with rolling morning fog, ten degree differences in weather from one section of San Francisco to the next and likely no snow this coming year. Note, I say “likely” considering that […]
Can you hear me now? We have all said it a number of times loudly and at times frustratingly so. Can you hear me now? Can you? How many times have we been annoyed to hear that question while on a train, doctor’s waiting room or a movie […]
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