I read a piece in Orion Magazine last night about traveling on trains as opposed to traveling via air. Train travel is compelling on many levels. It is a reconnection with our past — trains built America in many ways. It feels much more civilized than air travel. There are no full body scans, no [...]
innocently wild my two-year old son runs exuberantly, naked in the upstairs hallway between three rooms blond hair streaking around corners, small heels hammering out a ragged beat on the old wooden floor — he exudes an innocent wild childhood freedom that will be lost as he ages