There was no way I’d ever do it. None. Zip. Zilch. Zero. I would never drive a car in Ireland because years earlier my favorite writer had done so, crashed on the impossibly narrow Irish country roads, suffered debilitating head injuries, and eventually took his own life once back […]
My girls went back to school this week…well, they went back to school yesterday and are back at home today because the a/c in many of their school’s buildings and rooms is out of commission and it’s 94 degrees here in southeastern Pennsylvania, so…….no school just as school started anew. […]
There’s the chillaxed glamour of SoCal, the harshness of the California desert, curious life existing in pockets of somewheres that dot the landscape in the beige and brown valleys further east still, and finally the promise of an illuminated high-octane Las Vegas. Making the 4 hour drive to Sin City […]
Still learning how to be decent, how to hold back to make the future and present tense better so that nothing gets lost.
I had a great idea recently. It likely came to me as I prepared to take a physical exam or possibly during the family holiday that followed. Maybe there were even two of them, great ideas that is, but I couldn’t tell you about either. When I was a younger […]
My infatuation with the Cuban sandwich began over a decade ago in Sarasota, FL. I was traveling for work, waaaay back when I had proper employment, and was fortunate enough to spend a single night in that darling Gulf Coast town; not long enough to explore the city but just […]
You may have noticed that OWTK has been a wee bit dark since early July. Well, I kinda hope you’ve noticed. The darkness has come about this summer because since July 7 I’ve been pottering around the U.K., first with 11 other guys as we hiked the Hadrian’s Wall Trail […]
This travel story was made possible thanks to Wyndham Rewards. When I was a teenager there was only one place I wanted to be: Philadelphia. The energy, foodie delights, art house movie theaters and, most of all, the live music scene of my hometown big city called out to me […]
