earth on foot 29 8 Dec 2025 Monti area, Roma We came, we saw, we ran! earth on foot 29 https://maps.app.goo.gl/WbKMoLJnYnAz3PSu5?g_st=ic Riccardo, Dafna, Sebastian, and I stop in the parking area, having arrived at the Baths of Caracalla ahead of schedule. As we discuss the foul-smelling ancients, umbrella pines (pino umbrello, Riccardo tells us)—long-legged, Dr. … 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
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
Earth on foot 17 September 11, 2025 At a cafe, Baltimore, Maryland, near Johns Hopkins University, 11am, cool, cloudy Of Mere Being The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises In the bronze decor, A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm, without human meaning, Without human feeling, a foreign song. … Read more
earth on foot 16 4 Sept 2025 Crickets’ song, a cool breeze through the open window, and an occasional peal of laughter: I’m back in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York, where even the dogs are considerate. And if they aren’t, their owners warn, “She’s a waving dog,” and wave at their puppy to demonstrate. “Not … 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
earth on foot 10 The population of Mainz, Germany, is approximately 223,000 as of 2023. It is the largest city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.As of 2025, Berlin has an estimated population of approximately 3.58 million people, making it the largest city in Germany and the most populous city in the European Union. The city … Read more
earth on foot 9 23 July 2025 “What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wilderness? Let them be left, Oh let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.” — Inversnaid, by Gerard Manley Hopkins (This post dedicated to my amazing mom) Some spaces, both mental … Read more
earth on foot 5 25 June 2025 Again a spider walks across my notebook, a tiny creature this time, half the size of a sesame seed and pale white like mashed potatoes. My page is aglow under the orange canvas umbrella here at a bistro table in Worton Kitchen Garden, Oxfordshire. We are here to … Read more