Postcards from the Edge
Diversions, Travel Diversions, Travel

Postcards from the Edge

It all started in 1977. My best friend Nancy and I were knocking around downtown Portland, Oregon, where we attended college, and we wandered into the Greyhound bus depot, as one might do in those days. There was a rack of postcards, and I pulled out a 3-D postcard of The Last Supper. It became the first of a collection that has spanned four-plus decades and most of the continents. I don’t collect just any…

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Five Texans and a Stowaway...
SE Asia, Travel SE Asia, Travel

Five Texans and a Stowaway...

Six months ago I returned from my last teaching trip to find the world a very different place. At the time it sounded like my April and May workshops might be shut down, but I was hoping to be back on the road teaching by summer. Now we know that everything has been cancelled or postponed for the remainder of the year, and likely for well beyond that. Like many of you, I would guess,…

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