The weekend actually started as soon as I got off the train in Richmond. Unbeknownst to me, my North Carolina cousins had been texting me about my Cousin Reva's birthday which was that very day. Unfortunately, I was too zonked out by the endless hypnotic effect of scenery passing before my eyes to bother checking my smartphone. Travel has a narco ( Read more... )

I know, it's been about three weeks since Fall began, but it's worth taking some time to look back on the season just before. It began with a recognition that had begun to take hold during the Spring, that this would be the 10th anniversary of that year that Uncle Curtis - almost on a whim - suggested I rent his late brother's old house across the ( Read more... )