I’ve dipped my sneaker in the Mississippi. I was almost nine and my mother, brother, and I were on a month-long Greyhound bus trip across the United States. We stopped in Memphis, Tennessee so we could see the mighty river. I remember a lot of cobblestones leading down to the water and my blue denim… Continue reading More than an Adventure: Huck, Jim, & James
“The smell of salt air filled my nostrils. . . . I searched the southwest horizon, trying to find the light from Bodie Island. There were no landmarks. There was no land. I’m committed now; no diving over-board, no swimming back to shore.” Earlier in the summer I picked up Tori Murden McClure’s A Pearl in the… Continue reading No Swimming Back to Shore: Rowing Solo Across the Atlantic
Sometimes I believe in book karma. I pick up a book for one reason and by the end it’s given me dozens more reasons to recommend it. This was the case with Ma and Me a memoir by Cambodian American journalist Putsata Reang. I began reading it because I thought I might slip this column in before… Continue reading Ma and Me: a memoir that is so much more
A chalkboard standing on the sidewalk reads “Everything that Amazon is not.” Peering in a window, my eye is caught by a red, white, and blue book cover The United States of Cocktails and two vintage lowball glasses perched on a wrapped present. I open a door and the warmth of a cast iron stove… Continue reading A Book Lover Finds Gifts Close to Home
Below are articles I've contributed to the Sullivan County Democrat as part of my monthly book column Reading in the Catskills. You can also find additional information on where to buy, borrow, and hang out with books from Kingston to Callicoon. Links to other published work (travel, adventure, profiles, etc.) are in 'writing while riding'.… Continue reading Dear Reader…
Reading In the Catskills 