Fuzhou is impermanent
More than six years ago and in an entirely different lifetime, I wrote about how impermanent Shanghai was. The time … Continue reading Fuzhou is impermanent
More than six years ago and in an entirely different lifetime, I wrote about how impermanent Shanghai was. The time … Continue reading Fuzhou is impermanent
There was this time, many years ago now, when we stayed in a house on an eroding cliff with no … Continue reading The Cliff House
When I was an undergraduate, we talked about the value of enthography. Counched thoroughly as it is in Imperialism and … Continue reading Thick Description
Do you ever forget that this is the world that we are actually in? Sometimes, when it’s quiet in my … Continue reading Dances with the world that would be
To me it’s a magic transportation device. I am suddenly in London, on a bus going past Hackney Marshes. I am driving down US 36 toward Boulder from my parents’ house in Colorado. I am driving my favourite road in Iceland at sunset. I am looking out for deer on the roads of the Dolomites. I am in Ferrara, at the lake in Annecy, on the costanera in Puerto Natales, on I-80 heading to the mountains outside Seattle. I take my son to all the places I promised myself I would take him, not just the familiar park 500m from our place along the river Minjiang. Continue reading Travel by Radio