My mom clutches her life philosophy firmly in a thickly stamped passport. "God made this world beautiful and we have an obligation to get out there and see it," she says. I heard her on the Orient Express as we chugged along an 884-mile stretch between Bangkok and Singapore. We returned last night from an [...]
Pomerania doesn't exist as a free standing country anymore, but, thanks to the multi-generational tenacity of its descendants, its culture still thrives. Amazingly, you'll find it right here in Wisconsin, perfectly preserved and just a couple of miles up the road from Milwaukee. Freistadt stands as a testament to a faithful community who has balanced [...]
Friday afternoon, we packed up our car and pointed it north for the meandering kind of vacation we've grown to love. Our loose plan, to recreate a spontaneous college road trip we'd undertaken with friends in the dead of winter 33 years ago, left plenty of room for improvisation. We packed some memories, along with [...]
Highway 10 winds through Los Angeles like a giant metaphor, full of talented people driving forward, eager to arrive, but occasionally, communally stuck. Life follows the flow of traffic there, exhilaratingly swift and easy by turns, then excruciatingly slow and, once in a while, stopped cold. “You are 4.7 miles and 45 minutes from your [...]
For most of my life, Pittsburgh has been a city I've passed through, a giant wayside on the way to my Grandma's house in Colver. This weekend, I had a chance to look around a little, thanks to a whirlwind trip for a beautiful wedding. I have to say the Steel City and the family [...]