NOW IS A GOOD TIME

3: September 17, 2021 Jimmy From Aberdeen! Aberdeen. Ahh, Aberdeen, where huddled masses smoking in pub doorways are fashionable again, and 12-year-old boys look like 45-year-old men with a fondness for the drink and a BMI only their mothers could love. Aberdeen, where the people in general aren’t…they aren’t…what’s the word I’m looking for? Healthy. Continue reading “NOW IS A GOOD TIME”

Puffin Stuff

2. September 4, 2021 My Journey to The Faroes “You too late,” the grisled man in his early sixties said to me as he leaned against a flimsy post on the steep Gásadalur cliffside, casually smoking a cigarette while his tourist fare posed before its famous waterfall.  “Too late in the day?” I asked the cabbie, having read thatContinue reading “Puffin Stuff”

My Icelandish Exit

1. August 26, 2021 So, We’re Actually Doing This Dear Ernest and Hadley, It’s August 26th, and by now you likely realize I won’t be back for some time. A year, in fact, give or take, depending on covid, funding, some time to think about why I’m being held in a Turkish prison, or maybeContinue reading “My Icelandish Exit”