If at First You Don’t Succeed… Don’t Try Again

If at First You Don’t Succeed… Don’t Try Again

Bicycle Touring

My Grandma was the one who introduced me to the aphorisms that contain universal wisdoms: Make new friends but keep the old… put a penny in the old man’s hat… and if at first you don’t succeed. I thought about that ditty about trying again, after attempting to cross a...
Look at the Trees!

Look at the Trees!

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A memory that came back to me as David and I rode from southern Virginia to Northern Georgia on this book tour.  I am eight-years old .It is June,1966. We are in a blue station wagon, filled with plants and cats and little brothers. The infant is in a basket in the...

Bookstores are Political

Public History, Sustainable Economies

Bookstores are political. Today there are the those that have banned-book clubs and offer space to Trans support groups. They feature the works of Black, Indigenous, Latine and LGBTQ authors and subjects. “Labor” is a section, and so is “AAPI.” Genocide is a fact of...