Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

There are a great many things you should do and try in Puerto Rico that I really recommend as once in a lifetime experiences. To mention a few examples; night kayaking in to the bioluminescent bay in the Cabezas de San Juan, near Fajardo, where the water glows blue...
It’s Been Such a Long Time

It’s Been Such a Long Time

You expect the sand to be forgiving, but it will claim all of you, everything you have while your mind is fixed on the incandescent glow of the horizon.   You expect the clouds to be protecting, the shade on your shoulders burns deeper than the sun’s hues. but the...
Antigua

Antigua

At most any time of the week, the plaza at the center of the town of Antigua, Guatemala would have been abuzz with activity. How many times over the several days since arriving had I been approached by shoe-shine boys begging to polish my shoes (in spite of the fact...
Depression in Chicago

Depression in Chicago

Last week I quit my job in the Senate to become a writer. I left Washington – dumped my things in a storage unit – and now I live in a backpack and am in Chicago. I’m attending a lecture at Northwestern, learning about May 27, 1977 in Angola, and I am considering...
Honduras

Honduras

A Honduran summer night is the soundtrack of childhood’s most imaginative dreams and nightmares. In the absence of strained and steady city sounds, everything in rural El Espinal makes noise: a grasshopper’s wings against the humid air, the neighbor’s broom brushing...
Hurricane Sandy

Hurricane Sandy

Afterward, we worm into the basement of a Mr. Ted Kessler. He watches us pick apart relic from rubble, relent- less relievers, subduing a hoarseness   of tone. Here is his moldy rocking chair. Did he sit here once? To watch the sea romance the sand? We ask now: Does...