Defining Moments
I have a friend from college who is on an extended vacation in Berlin. His Facebook posts paint little scenes for us, snippets of his experiences. He writes of many ghosts: in the apartment where he is...
View ArticleNew Year’s Day in Cedar Rapids, IA
Two new photos posted on http://theviewfromtwocities.wordpress.com/. Just a couple of homey Cedar Rapids shots for the new year! Tagged: Cedar Rapids, New Year's Day, photos, snow, sun
View ArticleAny Place I Hang My Hat Is Home
As we were leaving church after the service, slowly processing out in single-file, my mother stopped the man in front of me. “Mike! Mike! Is this your hat?”, she asked, handing him a straw cowboy hat....
View ArticleJumping the Tracks
“The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at...
View ArticleThe Landscape of Love
“If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can also learn to love another.” ― Anne Michaels, Fugitive Pieces I...
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