There are days when life after 50 feels like waking up inside a well-appointed but not particularly interesting airport. The club room offers a nice view of other people’s planes taking off and landing. I overhear travelers talking about places they’ve been and places they’re going and I assume that I’m going someplace, too (I’m […]
I’m reserving a room for a one-week stay somewhere north of here. Maryland, I think, although the choice feels arbitrary and I’m having second thoughts about the trip overall. The clerk, a middle aged Indian man (red dot Indian, not woo-woo), needs $300 to hold my reservation. I produce an envelope of crisp, new twenty-dollar […]
Has it really been three years since J. Michael and I paid our respects to the Light People? They’re a Pelzer phenomenon, if you don’t know. Modest homes, roofs, lawns, trees, fences and tool sheds lit up like the sun. Lit up snowmen, lit up reindeer, lit up man-size candy canes. A few Pelzerites wrap […]
