Labor Day weekend, 2021, was not the first time that Route 522 took me off my intended path. Red line showing US 522 in Pennsylvania This road travels in a North-South direction, from the Susquehanna Valley in Pennsylvania to Powhatan, VA, and it is one of many spurs of US 22. My first occasion traveling … Continue reading The Lure of Rt. 522
Like many Bob Dylan fans I tuned in at 5pm EST on Sunday July 18th to watch Dylan’s first foray into livestreaming. The title Shadow Kingdom offered no clues to what we would be watching, but a couple weeks ago a promotional trailer came out that included the text “The Early Songs of Bob Dylan.” … Continue reading What We See in the Shadows
I needed a good title before I could start writing today, and after looking at a bunch of CDs for inspiration, I picked up Paul Westerberg's Eventually. It's playing now and felt like a good soundtrack to work to. It's been a while since my last post, but that doesn't mean I haven't been writing. … Continue reading Time Flies Tomorrow
For as long as I've known about it I have wanted to find Jacks Creek. Over the last several years it was nothing more than a sign on a bridge on route 322 in Central Pennsylvania. But the first time I noticed the sign I immediately wondered who Jack was and why he had a … Continue reading Finding Jacks Creek
Sometime in mid-February I read a blog post by Gretchen Rubin where she wrote about a ritual of going to the same place every day. She asked her readers where they would go if they could go to the same place daily, and I instantly thought of Henry Church Rock in the South Chagrin Reservation … Continue reading An ode to Henry Church
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