Showing posts with label Book excerpts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book excerpts. Show all posts
March 25, 2012

Leaving Nashville

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After some 20 years in Nashville, my dear friend Rhonda is returning to New England. Rhonda and her husband, Charlie, left Boston to follow ...
September 11, 2011

Remembering where we were

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On this 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks many of us will reflect on where we were as the horror of that day unfolded. In this e...
April 10, 2011

Drums and guns

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This month marks the 150th anniversary of the start of America's Civil War, and the media is milking that for all it's worth: books,...
November 11, 2009

A tapeworm grows in Brooklyn

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I have a story in a book that hit store shelves in October. Chicken Soup for the Soul: All in the Family promises to be a hot seller: it...
September 11, 2009

Journey

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A lthough my kids and I didn’t climb into the van and drive off until nine months later, our 12,000-mile American road odyssey began on Sept...
June 10, 2009

Alpena: Dairy Queen and mini-golf

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In this excerpt from Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America, the kids and I make ourselves at home at a funky hotel in fr...
April 09, 2009

Natchez: A Fish Tale

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I have a Mississippi story in the current issue of Country Roads Magazine. Click here to read Natchez: A Fish Tale . I've had the plea...
February 02, 2009

Acme Oyster House: Down the hatch

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The other night the Travel Channel ran a show wherein the host ate his way through New Orleans. The puffy gentleman popped into the kitchen...
December 28, 2008

Tin, coal and gold: Journey down the family tree

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Dana just did a geneaology project for her history class wherein she aired our family laundry, some nice, some not. On the not side lies gre...
October 22, 2008

Mackinac Island's Grand Hotel: The $10 Porch

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From Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America : We said goodbye to Judy and boarded the Arnold Ferry that took us out into...
August 26, 2008

Dry as bone: Excerpt from Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America

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"Entering the Homeland of Jicarilla Apache." The homeland was dry as bone, and Dulce, the reservation’s main town, held no sweetne...
January 02, 2008

Ashland: Home of the Oredockers

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From Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America: As we moved through America we were, for periods of time that were always to...
November 07, 2007

Sundance rodeo

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Sundance, Wyoming wrapped its cowboy tradition around us within an hour of arrival. We sat back on bleachers and watched the whole town turn...
August 17, 2007

Crossing the Hudson: Nostalgia trip

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I'll need a lot of hot coffee tomorrow. I'm looking at 10 hours of dashboard time as I ferry Dana and two friends to running camp i...
July 04, 2007

A Cajun 4th of July

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I t was the first 4th of July after September 11, and the kids and I spent it with some fine people in Louisiana. An excerpt from Ribbons of...
April 12, 2007

Fallingwater and funky toilets

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F rom Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America (click here to order or to download the e-book) : O ur Donegal, Pennsylvani...