Writing

To Saipan, from Saipan

A faraway dive location forever linked itself to a sentimental necklace

Don't Leave Your Key at Reception, Comrade

Surreal life at a grand hotel after fall of the Soviet Union

On Almost Killing Myself by Accident

When a simple holiday afternoon went wrong

Don't Accept the Standard

The US has followed a successful path - to stay successful, it needs to change paths

My First and Last Deer

Hunting with my father taught me it wasn't about deer, or even hunting

Right 'n Wrong Ways 'Round Damascus

Damascus in the 1990s had beauty, civility, and harbingers of the opposite yet to come

It's More Real When I Can See It

I found my old film camera and learned how to see differently

Keeping It Reel with an Old Mower

My loathing of cheap products lead me to buy one from 1970

When the Telephone was the Internet

Before there was the internet, one could always call long-distance