KEX Deck

It’s just a wooden platform facing the alley behind a youth hostel. But the deck at KEX in Reykjavik holds so many wonderful memories for...

Published in November 2020

I’m certainly not the first person to comment on how strangely time passes during the pandemic, but I might be the most confused by why...

The Life Aquatic

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou lives on a short list of stories I turn to when I need to feel like everything is going...

Here’s Lookin at You

I’ve never quite gotten used to keeping prey animals as pets. I keep forgetting that when they are “looking straight at you” they probably aren’t...

Andorra Revealed

Despite a history of book club and book challenge failures, I started Reading Around the World early in 2020. It turned out to be a...