Most people have not been on a roof. Not in their life. To quote the Gatekeeper of Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz, “Not no way, no how!” As kids we all climbed trees in the big … more

TJ had a dream. He often spoke of it. The two of us held long conversations about the dream. In the dream he was planting garlic, lots of garlic, rows and rows of garlic, thousands, tens of thousands … more

Dispirited by my lack of nerve on the throbbing train, yet unwilling to end my sojourn entirely, the next day, I dug some traveler’s checks out of my belt-pack and entered a travel agency not … more