My HippoCamp weekend
A recap of my first visit to HippoCamp, a conference for creative nonfiction writers, in Lancaster PA. I also had the pleasure of leading a session, which made the experience all the better.
Tag: Travel
Entitled jerkiness
It was a situation that would be perfectly fine and manageable if everyone showed a little patience and understanding. This is too much to ask of some, apparently.
Hi, what’s up?
Yeah, I’ve been away for a while. You know, the pandemic and all. And plans got changed. But the good news is that I wrote a novel and now I’m querying. So here’s an explanation and an apology.
City Series: The emptiness of Dallas, Texas
If you walk around downtown Dallas in mid-morning or early afternoon the only people you’ll see on the street are derelicts, panhandlers, and tourists trying to manage those motorized scooters after a little day drinking. And you wonder, how could that be? Where are all the people?
City Series: (wonderful) Copenhagen
The canals are incredibly picturesque. There are many sculptures scattered about the city, and it seems like a disturbing majority of them are some guy sitting on a horse. A lot of them may be the same guy, I think.
Cities series: Hey, I think I’m going to do a cities series
Thinking about how people decide a city is attractive or not, I decide to write a series of articles on cities I’ve visited, as snapshots of a traveler.