I like to think that my love of road trips and road maps began as a child when my grandparents would take my sister and myself to Michigan to visit our cousins over Memorial Day weekend. They picked us up after school on that Friday and we would drive as far west as the Cranberry … Continue reading Early routes
When I was 8 years old, give or take a year, one of my favorite albums was Sports, by Huey Lewis and the News. It was something that my parents played on a Saturday afternoon on the boombox in the kitchen, and this album along with a few others by Billy Joel, Paul Simon, and … Continue reading Huey Lewis Feels Like Home
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
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