Nathan Pearce Midwest Dirt ESSAY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT When I was 18 years old I packed my bags and left rural Illinois. It had been my home my entire life, but I thought in leaving I would find the perfect place for myself elsewhere. In the city everything and everyone I knew was very different …
GIGI GIANNUZZI….at the “Kibbutz”, Brooklyn…December 8, 2008 I was just getting ready to write my goodbye to Gigi Giannuzzi , founder of Trolley Books, who died Christmas Eve of pancreatic cancer at a very young 49….but I just cannot do it….So Candy and Eva went back through the Burn (Road Trips) archive and found this …
My mother , Maryanna , opens her curtain this morning to a white Christmas in Durango, Colorado. Mom and I cherish our special time for “morning coffee” when we discuss it all. Politics to family biz all come under our scrutiny.
Hajime Kimura Matagi Man lives freely only by his readiness to die. -Mahatma Gandhi One winter day, we pursued black-bears in the deep forest. Nothing around, the sun shining and the air crisp. We had barely eaten anything in more than 4 days. We were just exhausted. Suddenly one of the Matagi mumbled, having a …
The waves today on the Outer Banks are just spectacular. An offshore wind gives the large swells a perfect shape. Although it is for sure a winter day with seriously icy water, the surfing crowd is out there. Modern wetsuits make surfing a year around art form. So about an hour ago at sunset when …
Sometimes you meet somebody who just brightens your day. You know you will never see them again, but no matter. You know them.
Kenneth O’Halloran Life After Death Though now a more secular society, Ireland still has remnants and relics of the old religious faith, even if many of its devoted followers are typically advanced in age – part of what might be termed a dying generation. The Catholic Church had been one of the country’s mainstays. Falling …
