Monthly Archives: March 2025

Hello from QSL, It is a bit surreal to be sitting in this familiar place, and yet also strangely comforting. Wishing my former student, one who was always amazed by my desire for spice, was her to join me. However, it’s a bit from a commute from Russia back to Pennsylvania, and there might beContinue reading “When it Seems Hopeless”

Hello from Martha’s Cafe . . . At the moment, I am back in familiar places, and also leaving familiar places. I am sitting at the coffee bar, with my computer on a piece of wood that was milled by a former student, fellow veteran, and co-journeyer to Poland with me. Martha’s it seems wasContinue reading “Returning, Leaving, or Merely Moving On”

Hello from Caribou Coffee in Sioux City, While the first couple of paragraphs of this were written a couple weeks ago, I think I will leave them largely unedited. I am actually sitting with my computer and doing a bit of work on a variety of topics this morning. I am in what has becomeContinue reading “For Whom the Bell Tolls”