Posts filed under ‘Neither Here nor There…’
An interview with Lin Wenjie, recipient of the Bourse Renoir
An interview with artist Lin Wenjie, recipient of the 2016 Bourse Renoir….(in English and in French)
Continue Reading October 26, 2018 at 10:01 am Leave a comment
Here comes autumn…
Almost immediately after the big trucks hauling grapes had stopped making their several-times-a-day runs from the vineyards to the pressoir in Essoyes during the vendange, they were replaced by big trucks hauling loads of wood out of the forest…
A Peek into the Heartland (Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, 2018)
“Can you pick up some drums on your way out here?” my cousin emailed me. “I was planning to do a quick run in and out to get them, but since you’re coming this way anyway…”
Riverdog: A Rural Retreat in Ohio
An interview with the artist/host-proprietors of Riverdog, a delightful rural retreat center in northern Ohio…
The Women’s March: A Rare (and Wonderful!) Display of Unity Around the World
…I want to say how grateful I am to the many French women, Frenchmen (and other men), and children who joined us in marching through the streets of Paris to express our solidarity
with those who have already felt slighted, threatened, or otherwise badly treated by the new president of the United States…
Interview with Siffy and Tor Torkildson, editors of “The Walkabout Chronicles”
“The Walkabout Chronicles: Epic Journeys By Foot” is an illustrated collection of 35 essays about walking. The writers include scientists and archeologists, artists, explorers, and “ordinary people who do extraordinary things…”
Storing Up Wood for the Winter–in Champagne
The first problem was that I knew basically none of the things one would need to know in order to get wood for the winter. Here is an almost verbatim transcript of the first conversation I had with a friend who was trying to help me figure it out…
And then they were gone…
Les gens de voyage came here to pick grapes during the harvest…and then they were gone again…
Continue Reading September 27, 2016 at 1:44 pm Leave a comment
Keeping Immigration in Perspective
“Immigration is not a new story in this country. Almost all of our families came from somewhere else…”
Writing from the Heart, Reading for the Road 