Blogs from Manchester, Connecticut, United States, North America

Is it possible to do twice as much in half the time? Ever since my privately dramatic encounter with the legal system last year, long vacations in far off lands to have not been part of the program. A steel sword has halved the sixty-plus days of self-fulfilling meandering through countries whose towns I cannot pronounce and whose names are etched in script that would render me illiterate. Instead realty has tethered me to a life of numbing my extremities in the state’s top hockey rinks and chauffeuring my offspring to practices, pools, and birthday parties. Even so, to lodge a complaint among those who work in the real world would only result in foreseeable scowls, disdain and comments such as, “Yeah, my last vacation was to the casino for weekend in 2006.” Privately I ... read more

Welcome to this summer’s essays entitled THE SUMMER OF MY SALVATION. THE SUMMER OF MY SALVATION will depict a different type of journey starting in Tennessee. From there, who knows? A traveler’s itinerary should never be set in stone. For me, it is still developing as I compose these words. I am still considering a change in title, as planning has been thrown on its head in the past week The purpose of these essays was to originally document a part of the world through my eyes and ears. While raw, unfiltered, and very subjective, more introspection will come into play. Much has transpired in the past year. Let me explain what that means to you, the reader: First of all, postings will have only gone through a cursory edit. While in motion, it will be ... read more