Earthonfoot 31 12 Jan 26 Tokyo Time for onigiri We arrived Wednesday morning after an uneventful flight on ITA Airways from Rome, during which we flew over Bulgaria, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan (avoiding flying over Ukraine), through China near Mongolia, South Korea, over the Sea of Japan to Haneda Airport, Tokyo. We wrestled our luggage through … Read more
12 November 2025 A big assignment just landed: a friend, a writer with a novel due out next year, has given me the homework of reducing my 160,000 word mystery novel draft to 80,000 words. With this goal committed, I find instead every activity supersedes. Never was my house more in order, or files more … Read more
earth on foot 23 21 October 2025 The wind has arrived in earnest today. After a few sunny, warm days in NYC, the Baltimore temperature has dropped. Several people in my immediate orbit are under the weather—one presently “at one with the comforter” and on her second pot of tea. Two days from now, we … Read more
La Terra a Piedi 21 October 9, 2025 I’m in Baltimore on a chilly morning touched by autumn. Close to me sit musicians who talk with many gestures and laugh constantly.“I have a lot of goals—I have an Excel file with my goals, and also my gigs,” one of them says.My fingers are cold and … Read more
Still Life in Baltimore Mark making with a Small Person–Paul Klee would approve! #dada #surrealism
earth on foot 20 2 October 2025 Mary T Watts, an American naturalist, poet, illustrator and daughter of Danish immigrants, wrote a letter to the Chicago Tribune on September 25, 1963. In it, she implored the city to repurpose an abandoned rail line into a multi-use path (“bulldozers are drooling”, she wrote). This letter eventually … Read more
Earth on foot 18 18 September 2025 A lithe squirrel, hesitant, makes his way over red bricks. An acorn fills his tiny mouth. I see him a moment later, far up the pine in the neighbor’s yard. I thought I was alone here, but there’s an awful lot going on around me, come to think … Read more
Koblenz to Baltimore. earth on foot 11 On our last day in Germany, I took the IC train an hour from Mainz to Koblenz. I’d been told the night before, at a beer hall notable for its 5-foot-tall beer steins, that it was a lovely city with lots of history and great apple strudel. On … Read more