I'm alive and doin' fineItinerary (last installment)1. I spent Monday at home with Mom watching TV. At 4 p.m. I went next door for cocktail hour with my grandmother. (My parents live in a duplex with my maternal grandmot…
Baby, this ain't me grown so uglyItinerary (part III)1. Saturday I drove out to the east suburbs to see my aunt (on my mom's side) perform with her Pentecostal rock band for the first time in a year at an annual Christia…
Hiding from daylight, watching TVItinerary, part II1. The music worked out perfectly. My two long country playlists got me all the way through Indiana, and I started Over the Rhine's Ohio right as I crossed the border. T…
All things go, all things goMadison -> Columbus -> suburban Cleveland travel highlights:1. Fucking Illinois toll road signeage. I accidentally exited into an I-pass express lane instead of getting off the Tri-State…
Another Postcard from the HighwayAfter that fucking election, it's been good to traverse modern America's most pregnant metonymy for its lifestyle--the interstate system--and remind myself how much I love this place. You…
