the daysman

leaving on a jet plane

I’m thinking about the long hot shower this morning, with great water pressure. To find those things in Nepal, at the same time, is unlikely or rare.

I’m grateful to travel with her, and to celebrate her clicking off one more decade.

It may not take a village to plan a sabbatical, but it does take a lot of people.

There are many ways to measure distance: time, miles, paperwork and affection.

Almost anything that has to do with disentangling your life for a few months involves unproductive hours on a phone.