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An Undelivered Postcard
A 100-year-old sign is discovered in Poland, and with it, an entire family. Introduction Until recently, I had no real interest in seeing Poland. My ancestors rarely spoke of the old country, or their reasons for leaving in 1906, and there really wouldn’t be much of an emotional connection for me in their hometown. The last Read more
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Welcome to Tramwayland
One summer, my best high school buddy Gary and I went backpacking on Mt. San Jacinto, nearly 11,000 feet above Palm Springs. For anyone not familiar with that mountain, the way to get there is by taking an aerial tram that climbs most of the way to the top — a 15 minute ride. The Read more
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The Time I Kinda Sorta Murdered Someone in My Volvo
I once drove a very white Volvo. It’s the only white car I’ve ever owned. I loved the pearlescent finish, but as anyone who’s ever driven a white car can attest, every drop of mud screams for attention. If you live in a place like Oregon, you may as well forget about having a clean Read more
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Death by Orange Flavored Foam
One evening I felt like I was coming down with a cold. I stopped into a pharmacy near my apartment in Amsterdam, and picked up a tube of 1,000 mg Vitamin C tablets. I could read just enough Dutch to know that they were orange-flavored and delicious. I left the store, and decided to chew Read more
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Surfer Chicks
My best friend Gary got his drivers license a few months before I did. His default car was a heinous red 1970-ish Datsun station wagon that no self-respecting 16 year old guy would be seen in. Once in a while, his dad let him drive the studly ‘72 blue Chevy Nova, but only after being Read more
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The Time My GPS Almost Got Me Arrested
Lessons learned from an accidental off-road adventure in the early days of GPS Most of us take GPS technology for granted, but it was once in its infancy and I was an early adopter. I had a little device that went on top of my dashboard. It couldn’t route me anywhere and it had no Read more
SMUDGED POSTCARDS 