the latest oh the places you’ll go posts
location, abode, area, berth, city, corner, country, district, field, hamlet, hangout, home, house, joint, latitude, locale, locus, neighborhood, niche, nook, site, spot, town, venue, vicinity, village, whereabouts, zone. thanks to dr. seuss for the title and the shoes full of feet
a mouthful of carolina
If your kid is at Duke, you stay at the WaDu* when you visit. The last time I was there was in ’96 when Amy and Chris were graduating from law school. Mr. Forte and his dad Ed, me and my stepmother Margery and dozens of chirping, booming knots of other graduates’ families and friends…
a new green blue day
Sea lions are sunning and snorting on a floating pier and gulls wheel in the stiff breeze. The air is salted. I’m in my room on the second floor of a small inn on the water’s edge of Morro Bay. One tiny balcony for a chair that faces the sea, one that faces east for…
hotel california
someone is tossing petals in a stream somewhere someone is standing at the foothills of their dreams antje duvekot – “merry go round” this last luxe night in santa barbara – raced all day from shower to meeting from web portal to grandson’s college to ojai and carne asada, past beaches and breakers once,…
dogleg to malibu, north by northwest
It’s time to fly away. I don’t know how things lined up so perfectly – Mr. Forte’s office retreat in Santa Barbara and Simone’s school Grandparents’ Day in San Francisco bookending a blank Monday and Tuesday that made it ridiculous to even think about driving back to San Diego in the middle – but…
in the company of saints
Two years ago this month Mr. Forte and I were in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada, walking around the old town on a beautiful blue-sky day, stopping at old church after another. I was completely charmed by this place. Who wouldn’t love a town that’s on the Bay of Fundy? This small collection…
tripping into fall, oohing and aahing
I wish I’d had a better camera when Mot and I found Gig Harbor, Washington on a chilly October day on the far side of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. These windows, in the Threshold Group’s architectural stunner of a building, look onto the marina, as do homes on the wooded hillside across the inlet….