Overwhelming humidity, the rural South, and a hurricane. I have experienced all three of these before, but always from a place of ease and safety, where I could step out,…
Montmartre at the Place du Tertre is a little bohemian bubble in time. Though people do live here, it must cost a fortune. In my neighborhood, South Pigalle in the…
The Land of Enchantment stretches down the Rio Grande a little bit into Texas. That is what a woman at the museum in Columbus, New Mexico told me. I am…
We’re in the Blue Ridge Mountains! Woke up this morning in Maggie Valley, North Carolina, not sticky with sweat! The no-see-um’s biting my ankles, and the occasional, disconcerting bang…
