Living Rootless

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

 An ad hoc poem I wrote in some time in some where? An exercise with the Tumblewords Project ? No idea. But here it is, about a real-life e...

In winter 2018, I spent a month in Mexico City . My accommodations, originally a Friends (Quaker) guesthouse, gave its third floor over to s...

  Given the bendiness of the word ghost , it pleases me that the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Opelousas, Louisiana, hosts the Holy Ghost C...

  In preparing this post, I came upon the sad news that "Lil Kenny," the namesake of Lil Kenny and the Heartbreakers died in 2021 ...

  Vietnamese refugees on boat, circa 1985. Credit: US Navy via wikipedia .   I'm visiting Hanoi in November. I'll be there for a mon...

 In re-visiting my original post, I reconfirmed the librarian thing in the American folklore, and then found this SNL piece, The Librarian ,...

   ... and still do.   Saturday, August 2, 2014 Louisiana: We Still Stop for Carcasses   Dead bluejay, Fran...

   I've had several so-called smart phones (do we still need to call them that?) since my original adoption in 2014. All androids. I...

  Since my original post in 2014, these gentlemen have passed away:  Ray Abshire (full name Emerson Ray Abshire), 2023 D.L. Menard   This t...

  Nescafe Gold Espresso. Jefferson City, Missouri. Photo: Mzuriana.   I have a new instant coffee love. Its tagline is velvety crema . And i...

           Kettle corn at Longmont Farmer and Craft Fair, Colorado. June 2023.                                             Being always on t...

You wouldn't think a minimalist like me would get attached to mere ... things , would you?  But I do, and I think wistfully of items tha...

  Wikihow proposes 3 Ways to Urinate When On An Automobile Trip . I'm guessing the author(s) giggled while writing this primer because i...

  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. ...