Standing very still, I watched as they walked, waddled before me. The first one standing within a foot or so, as it was followed by another, and then another until the group of six formed a semi-circle around me. They moved their heads back and forth in slow curiosity of this towering giant covered in […]

In the mid 1970’s after high school I had decided to skip a year and travel rather than attend college. Buying a plane ticket I flew alone to Europe and hitchhiked from Holland to southern Italy and back. Arriving in Rome, Italy I found lodging in a small pension that was shared with a number […]

The bleached white rocks crunched under foot as I walked down the road. A layer of rock had recently been added to cover the clay earth that would turn into slick and undriveable muck with every rain. On either side were waist-high green wheat fields that moved musically with the wind. Nebraska has sky that […]

The crowd surged forward and back with the flashes and cracks of the fireworks. Sparks flew into the air landing on shoulders and heads but no one seemed to notice. The singing and excitement grew louder and thick as the mass waited for the torching of Ravana. The twenty foot tall paper Mache statue stood […]

We were at the top of the hotel on an open veranda waiting for the coming sunset. It began with the sun turning a pale pinkish orange behind lavender blossomed trees. The far hills became a soft pastel blue; as layer upon layer of hills approached the streets below each grew bluer and darker. Black […]