December 31, 2015
Old Year/New Year: Poems
Woody Guthrie: “Woody Guthrie’s 1943 “New Years Rulin’s.” Found in one of his journals dated January 1st, 1943.” — woodieguthrie.org * Naomi Shihab Nye: Burning the Old Year Letters swallow […]
May 5, 2015
Bashōand my Grandmother: Reflections of Travel, 1689 & 1968, Part 2
Last week I wrote about my grandmother Kitty’s travel journal from 1968 alongside Bashō’s travel journal from 1689. While journeying to foreign coasts, the two forty-somethings kept time by scribbling about practical […]
April 29, 2015
Bashō and my Grandmother: Reflections of Travel, 1689 & 1968
My late, maternal grandmother, known to everyone as “Kitty,” kept a journal on the cross-country trip she made with my grandfather from Western Pennsylvania to Southern California in the Spring […]