Diction Fairy
Lack of time, not lack of travel, resulted in a sadly neglected blog. In December a companion and I road tripped in my new Mazda 3 (named Dorothy Parker) from Austin through Oklahoma; to Kansas for a brief stay in Lawrence; on to Missouri, where we spent two nights at …
How many times have you purchased postcards and returned home with them because you couldn’t find stamps, didn’t have an address, forgot to mail them, or lost them in your luggage? That’s what happened to my friend who sent me this postcard from Amsterdam, which was mailed post-vacation from L.A. …
I became an ordained minister in a brewery in Kansas back in 2002. On a Monday night, when the Free State Brewery had …
I took an unexpected hiatus from blogging because of an unscheduled car wreck, followed by a bit of business travel. (Obviously I …
October 20, 2014, will be three years since I filed for divorce. I’ll take the single life over the misery of that …
Look at this humble digital blog about the art of the hand-written letter, all grown up at one-month old. In the past …
I received one of my favorite postcards back in November 1991, less than a year after I moved to Austin. The person …
Around the end of my first trimester, which also coincided with my graduation from the University of Texas in May 1996, I …
I dropped four postcards in the outgoing apartment mail today and then opened my mailbox: junk mail, a magazine, and a YubiKey …
When I was 22, I received a letter from Brian. Finding this letter a few months ago was like finding a piece …