It’s my first trip without Lucy. I see traces of her everywhere I look. The girl who stands in line in front of me at the check-in counter wears a…
Bella, the female St. Bernhard who belonged to the vigilius owners, often played with the children of guests currently visiting the mountain resort, a pastime which included generous amounts of…
I had finished all of my other oral exams for graduation in the morning. They were good enough; not even I had great expectations. One subject was left and after…
I wouldn’t normally have an ice cream but the raspberry ripple at the wee cafe down at the harbour is so tempting. I like the girl that serves there, too.…
“Which do you prefer, Happiness or Truth?” Oscar drew two circles in the cool, dusky air with the thick temple of his horn-rims. Leaning on his left elbow over the…
A peninsular outcrop of granite covered in larch and pine juts out into the lake, actually a reservoir of water snaking through an idyllic Alpine mountain valley with a…
The road curved languidly around mountain ridges that rose out of a flat desert floor - a vast waste land of tumbleweed and Joshua trees. After days of relatively…
The men stood motionlessly around the lake. Quietly, almost cautiously they had made their way as lumbering shapes here, one after the other, sometimes alone or in small groups. Even…
Once upon a time about a year ago in a land far away to the East, a crown woke up. Now this Crown was unlike any other, for it was…
I love the outdoors. I love cycling. I love coffee. Imagine my delight when I spotted the billboard for the Bike & Bean on Highway 179 in Sedona, Arizona, right…