People have asked so I will try to answer the question about how I planned and managed this big road trip. I started out with two specific goals with locations and dates. I wanted to attend the Key West Literary Seminar in early January, and I wanted to attend the bat mitzvah of my dear Read More

Today marks the end of what I have grandly called “my last big road trip.” I am in Sarasota, Florida visiting my cousin Rosie who is from the Alaska side of my father’s family. A slight digression into family history is probably appropriate. My dad grew up in a Jewish family in Berlin. He left Read More

In 2016 I believed (and still believe) that Hillary Clinton was perhaps the only Democratic candidate that Donald Trump could have beaten. Ultimately twenty states (totalling 125 electoral votes) were won by the Republican candidate by more than 10 percentage points, thirteen states (totalling 174 electoral votes) were won by the Democratic candidate by more Read More

My road trip began on Monday December 20 and I am now into my seventh week. I am coming back down south and will be passing 8,000 miles shortly.. When I first began visualizing this road trip I looked at the map and the roads from Oregon down the coast to Southern California and across Read More

My trip up to Vermont/New Hampshire was wonderful but I managed to get out BEFORE the expected Northeaster arrives. I got to visit with my old friend and neighbor Bob Belenky who now lives in a quaker retirement home in Hanover New Hampshire and got to take a lovely (off leash) walk Jerry and Bob’s Read More

By traditional metrics, the 2022 midterms may not be as bad as some fear for the slim Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The Democrats currently have a narrow 9 vote margin in House and a literal tie in the Senate (broken only by VP Harris. 1) The party in power traditionally loses in Read More

I have now been on the road for four weeks. (I left home on Monday December 20). By the end of the week I will be in Boston celebrating the bat mitzvah of my late college friend Jonathan’s grand daughter Ava. The winter storm that just passed was the first big obstacle. The roads in Read More

At the end of my fourth week on the road trip I have run into “weather” in Georgia. In Atlanta today it just about freezing and raining. It is projected that the temperature will drop and the roads will freeze and the precipitation will turn into snow. Lovely. More significantly there is a winter storm Read More

One of the focuses of this trip was attendance/participation in the Key West Literary Seminar (home – Key West Literary Seminar (kwls.org)) and that is now done. The Seminar gathers writers to talk on a particular theme (this year the theme was desire) and people who like writing to gather and listen. There have been Read More

As I stumbled home along the 1.25 miles of Duval Street in Key West after eating what may have been my last blackened fish sandwhich on the pier I couldn’t help but remember some of the other times I’d been there over the past 40 years. I’d been there first as a young man in Read More