Grant has a new blog from his year trek through Central and South America today: http://www.losethekeys.com/2016/01/12/the-ancient-mayans/ He’s a younger and riskier traveler. I should have been this guy when I was young and unencumbered by life. What path shall Read More …
Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Things people travel to see that are close to you–you never go there. Texas Monthly listed painting the cars at the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo as a goal of the year, but when I grew up Read More …
What do you you think? Is this kids being fashionable as we all were at their vacuous age? Is this Rome the year before Caesar crossed the Rubicon? Or, is it nothing? http://www.chron.com/national/article/Miami-Delta-Gamma-releases-wildest-recruitment-6744109.php
Grant Cherwenuk in Guatemala. Follow his adventures online. Site is at the previous blog.
Grant Cherwenuk, a friend of my sons Will and David, decided to spend a year traveling Central and South America. You can follow this young man’s adventure on his blog below. I’m so proud of him for following his own Read More …
The Writer’s serving her duty From @TheJoiOfWriting who recently posted How Not To Get Out Of Jury Duty. You can read it on her excellent blog at http://joimaria.typepad.com/joi_maria/2015/09/how-not-to-get-out-of-jury-service.html. You should read it.
When we were Istanbul two years ago, there were relatively few Americans. It was Ramadan and our plane was half full. When we arrived there, the city was full of Russian tourists partying and drinking like it was a weekend Read More …
Has God talked to you? He sounds like an old guy that’s smoked too many cigarettes, and he has a Nebraskan accent. The funny thing is that when I heard the voice I was in Lubbock driving down the loop Read More …
In 1980 I was 22 years old and deluded into thinking I was smart and sophisticated. In the summer of that year I was in Detroit at the Republican National Convention. Elizabeth Taylor at the time was married to Senator Read More …
I buy my coffee every morning at the same place just like you. The same person always sells it to me. One day I opened my eyes enough to see him. Little. Slim. Shy. Inner city kid. He’s always there. Read More …
New writers, pay attention. I don’t know about you, but writing, rewriting, editing involves a lot of pain for me. And then there’s the writer’s groups–without them I would never be about to publish–that rip your soul out in their Read More …
http://www.russelllittleauthor.com/?p=268 describes when I visited the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem and made many new friends.
The Bahai Holy Place in Haifa, Israel climbs a large hill on the edge of downtown. Its pristine perfection is so bizarre that it feels more like a computer generated world. Not even a leaf lies on the lawn that Read More …
