Category: Family
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Potomac Heritage Trail
We stopped for breakfast on a rock beside a rope swing, musing aloud about swingers throwing themselves from such a height into the water.
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Mumbai (Slight Return)
This week I spent a few days in an old haunt. Strange, wonderful, electric Maximum City, arriving here six years ago I boarded a train with my wife and sons destined for Mumbai’s iconic Victoria Terminus and, from there, the Gateway of India. Strange city then, you hustled us into the railcar, we all full…
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Hope, Actually
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Shouldn’t we rate ourselves on how our daily grind makes this world a better place?
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Travel Writing on Kingdoms
All travel writing is essentially the same. The essence shifts away from plot and in favor of setting.
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Slip Slidin’ Away
Sometimes it feels like it’s all just slip-sliding-away.
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The Artificial Joy of Men in Tights
“You get a big delight in every bite!”
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Learning to Drive
I learned to drive like I learned to shoot: a golf cart can’t be so different from a bb gun, can it? With the golf cart you’ve got two pedals and a wheel. With the bb gun, you’ve got two sights and a trigger. My poor son. He’s learning to drive on a 12-year-old stick…
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