Wishing Well Part 1 When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as…

“For your service to our country,” I might have said in response to the, “Thanks for the ride,” he did not say. I find a sort of wide spot in…

Part 1 When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being…

“Get his/her act together,” a statement containing the seeds of its own refutation and rebuttal. Or seed: the word “act”. What seems to give the statement credibility is the assumed…

To help me choose my route, I’ve got a magazine-sized Rand-McNally road atlas as my ready reference, though so far I’ve used it more to tell me where I’ve been…

“So what’re you guys up to?” I ask the two tee-shirt-and-jeans teen-agers who wander into my camp and stop twenty yards in front of me with my hood up. The…

I’m headed south on this fading afternoon of my very first, quite eventful, day on the road. I’ve travelled a couple hundred miles, seen some country, got a haircut, probably…

Part One When you wish for something hard enough, you just might get it. Then comes the part about how hard you thought about what happens next, as in being…

A small-town SAFEWAY invites me in for Dutch-lunch picnic supplies — Blitz Weinhard beer, Tillamook cheddar, saltine crackers. I fall in love with the checkout gamin’s tan, competent-looking hands. Should…

This gunmetal Chevrolet was already old in 1963 when I willingly paid too much for its low miles, perfect paint and glass, and total lack of dents or dings —…