These are all images of women in Morocco, taken in 2010. … [Read more...]

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places." --Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities … [Read more...]

We were going to Paris to get away.  Or at least I was.  I'd been working on a book that was vaguely about tigers for the past eight months and I wanted, for a couple weeks anyway, to forget about those solitary beasts.  I want to be footloose, to roam.  To … [Read more...]

This is where the "Write by the Water" writers' retreat will be taking place and I'll be the writer in residence.  It would be wonderful if some of you would consider joining me in Sicily in June.  Check out the link below.  I've been to this part of the world and … [Read more...]

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