The Black Church of Brasov
At the end of 2022, I spent one month traveling in Romania, Turkey, and Greece. I spent a little over two weeks in Brasov, Romania,...
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The Blog.
I post bi-weekly about writing, editing, teaching, and travel.
- Jan 15
- 3 min
Narrative Distance in Romania
I've been thinking about the similarities between writing and photography lately. About how you can zoom in or out towards your...
- Jan 12
- 3 min
Bucharest, the "Little Paris of the East"
The Arcul de Triumf in Bucharest As promised, here at the start of 2023, I've decided to revisit Europe with you, my readers. Each...
- Jan 5
- 1 min
Come, Storm
Forest of my childhood braved, blazed, razed, consumed by the night. Stands solemn now in winter. Fights fire with ice. My dad and I...
- Jan 1
- 2 min
New Year, Same Me
I've lived through enough New Year's to know that nothing magical happens at midnight on December 31st. As a kid, I remember standing in...
- Dec 29, 2022
- 1 min
Home, Not Home
It's always strange, being home. Home where I was a child, where I became a not-child, where I am not a child anymore. I sat on this tree...
- Dec 25, 2022
- 1 min
Merry Christmas from the Denver Airport
If I feel bad for travelers around the holidays, I feel worse for airline and airport employees. I was supposed to fly from Knoxville to...
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
Travel and Blogging
I am behind on posting, but that's no surprise. I may give up entirely until after my trip. Travel takes it out of you, and it's hard to...
- Nov 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Road Not Taken
As I'm leaving for Romania in two days, and in relation to this post, sharing this quintessential Robert Frost poem for this week's...
- Nov 6, 2022
- 4 min
Writing as a Way to Read Life
Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, whereas literature teaches us...
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
I have always loved this poem. It is first seen in Gandalf's letter to Frodo in Bree. In that letter, it appears as part of a...
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