I was alone in the church, and the two people I saw as a reached…
Beautiful Blue Danube 4: Pilgrimage
I was alone in the church, and the two people I saw as a reached the summit had gone when I came out. A slight breeze tousled my hair away from perspiring neck, a mother’s caress; I was still slightly breathless after the climb. Birds sang and the sun shone on...
Beautiful Blue Danube 3: Dienstag in Regensburg
Under the metallic light in Regensburg on this March-like day in May, the Beautiful Blue Danube flows southeasterly with vigor. The water is definitely not blue; mostly it is greenish with brown reflections, and glints of pewter on the wavelets. Regensburg is crawling...
Beautiful Blue Danube 2: Through A Dozen Locks
We are cruisin’, really bookin’ down the Am Europakanal (aka the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal) toward Regensburg and our hook-up with the Danube. The water rippling by in he damp, gray chill is all I can hear–although a few kilometers back the birds were...
Reading Unfriendly: My Barnes & Noble Is Freaking Me Out
Went to my local Barnes & Noble to pick up a couple copies of Dan Lyons, Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble (Hachette, 2016). I had heard most of the interview he did with Terry Gross on NPR’s “Fresh Air” and immediately got the book. Just...