I am an exile's book. He sent me. ~Ovid Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your ow...

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. -- Winston Churchill When I rolled into River...

[From pocket journal, 9 May 2016] At the. Louisville Greyhound Station, waiting for the bus to Cincinnati. I know this isn't a prop...

  There is nothing more grotesque to me than a vacation. - Dustin Hoffman How often I found where I should be going only by setting out f...

I've often told my friend Jared Salyers that I am jealous of his sense of place.  With very few exceptions, he has never wandered far ...

The Ohio River has been a physical and psychic boundary marker for as long as I can remember. Growing up in southeastern Ohio in the shado...

Here we are now entertain us / I feel stupid and contagious / Here we are now entertain us - Nirvana Let be be finale of seem./  The only em...

I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard. - L. Frank Baum Back in the saddle again, as it were. The academic year is official...