the latest posts tagged ‘san diego’
red blanket dream
It’s beginning, the last bit, the chunk of time we will measure after the clock stops. We’ll say I remember when we knew it wouldn’t be much longer. We’ll say I remember where I was sitting when I read his email, the one he sent to a handful of us, the one that said…
lunacy
There had been a ton of hype – first total lunar eclipse since _____ (some date – i wasn’t paying that much attention), won’t happen again until 2014, San Diego is in *the* optimal place to see the entire thing, it will be a “blood-red monster,” totality at about 6:37 a.m. (not the middle…
Moving On
Roads, belts of asphalt or concrete, arrow straight or curly as a grapevine, they slip and wriggle through mountains, vectoring the view, and slash true as a blade on the flats, the shortest distance between two points, city to country to town and back. We drove from San Diego to Bethesda in 1954 with my…