Mozart and the Tour du Mont Blanc
Dispatch Summer 2023 This is my Tour du Mont Blanc journal. The Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB) is a 100-mile loop hike around the Mont Blanc massif in the French, Italian and Swiss Alps. It is not a new hike that I am inventing; I am doing a hike that many others have done and […]
Of flowers and soil
Snapshot 17 July 2023 CAPE TOWN, South Africa—When you start calling yourself a writer there is the imagined expectation that each word you write will be an alchemical mixture of, at the least, sunlight and gold. Sometimes that is the case, but writing is as much about the glittering nuggets made of sunlight and gold […]
Brief burst of color (Jixuan is a rainbow)
BOULDER, Colo.—How do you write about a photograph? How do you capture with words what you captured with light? How do you capture with words exactly how you felt when you took the photo, when how you felt existed in your mind only for a flash? There’s a curious thing that happens after you spend […]