WALKING SONG …reminding herself that she was only an elderly woman who had got up too early in the morning and journeyed too far, that the despair creeping over her was merely her despair, her personal weakness, and that even if she got a sunstroke and went mad the rest of the world would go […]
TSA
In the midst of all the major screw-ups and minor hassles of air travel, there comes, now and again, a little moment to savor. One such moment occurred this week as we returned from the Canadian Rockies to New Hampshire, clearing Customs in Calgary. Having waited on a predictably interminable line, my husband and I, […]
Flash Flash Click
Poet and editor Siel Ju (a fellow contributor to NOTHING TO DECLARE: A Guide to the Flash Sequence; White Pine Press) has launched a new lit zine called Flash Flash Click– “fast fiction for a quick lit fix”– which will appear in your inbox bi-weekly if you subscribe. It’s quirky, funny, startling and a pleasure […]
La Gallera
The noise is everywhere. Like heat. Dozens of cocks crowing. The voices of scores of men shouting above the loud, scratchy, amplified voice of the announcer. Only the two cocks in the middle of the ring are silent as they circle and jab, neck feathers fanned, blood beginning to stain their heads and shoulders. Friday […]
Retro Travel
In 1989, Charter and I embarked on what would become an annual road trip. Somewhere in North America. In a Corvette. This unlikely odyssey began in, of all places, Reims, France when, on the way home from a trip to Paris financed by our year of not smoking, we happened upon a quirky car museum […]
Corvette Fever November 1989
The French Connection: Does America’s sports car have French accent? (Photographs: Charter Weeks; Artwork courtesy of Phillippe Charbonneaux and Retroviseur magazine.) The Center of the French Automobile is stunning. It houses the personal collection of engineer and designer Philippe Charbonneaux. Row upon row of rare and elegant cars gleam under the arch¬ing roof of […]
