road trip
July 3, 2009
- Reviewed by Fran Lewis A circle has no beginning and no end and yet this story comes full circle in its entirety. From 1938 where the story truly begins and the horrors faced by many during the Second World War, this book helps to remind us of events that we cannot and will not ever forget. This is a novel comprised of many intricate layers of emotions and individual stories. Each character ...
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June 3, 2009
- ShiftJennifer BradburyMay 2008AtheneumISBN: 978-1-4169-4732-5Retail: $16.99Jen and I spoke together on a panel at NCTE, and I got her book then. I've been meaning to read it ever since. I'm so glad I finally did. Shift is the story of two 18 year-old high school graduates, Win and Chris, who bicycle across America the summer before college starts. It's a journey of self discovery, a YA coming of ...
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May 17, 2009
- The National Debt Roadtrip - A graphic illustration on the proportion of Federal Government spending under Barack Obama, his Administration and the current U.S. Congress [Crtl-Click image to launch video]. Image Credit: PDF Conversion by Edmund Jenks (2009) Driving The Debt Car During Carter's Second Term How did the national debt get so big? How do the Obama deficits compare with past ...
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August 31, 2008
- it was as if we were driving into the raining clouds, seeing nothing, hearing nothing but the shooting, heavy drops of heavenly water. one could easily feel the tension dripping from the eyes and gestures of everyone...but there was something mystical and secret between the atmosphere and me, that set me alert, extremely alert, i could even distinguish the hurried, short, anxious human breaths ...
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July 28, 2008
- How can you know what it smells like inside a Nevada brothel? Whether the coffee is bottomless at Stockmen's casino restaurant? What the sun looks like coming up over the Ruby Mountains?How can you know what "quality of friendly" the people of the town show strangers? Is it that hyperactive "lets-show-you-how-friendly-our-town-is" friendly? It's hard to capture that emotion on ...
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July 21, 2008
- My newest Red Diaper Dharma column is up at Literary Mama. "It's last month. We're on a road trip, Annie and I. Nine days through California, Nevada, and Arizona. Motels and hotels, national parks and ghost towns, road food. It's June, it's hot, and the car is small. Annie is a teenage girl and I'm her mother, and on paper this all sounds like a recipe for conflict and disaster, yet she's ...
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June 27, 2008
- Home! No traffic between Salinas and Oakland, the dogs have stopped leaping and wagging, the sister-in-law/dogsitter is gone, the stuff from the car is mostly in, the laundry started, the email checked, the bills sorted. Yes, we need to go get groceries, shower, and find my missing office keys. But give it a rest, Lutz. Give it a momentary rest.Meanwhile...The final tally: 3 States5 fill-ups of ...
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June 27, 2008
- When you're heading out on the road, filled with optimism and nerves and adventure, everything seems fresh and shiny. By the last day, you're beat, reduced to taking pictures of the exterior of Ostrichland. Hell no, we didn't see the Ostriches. No way I was paying $4 each plus $1 for each pan of food to be bossed around.But let me back up.The PCH though MalibuWe left LA after breakfast with ...
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June 25, 2008
- Today we drove through thick gray smog from Banning to Los Angeles. Tonight we're at my stepson Aaron's house enjoying his and his wife Ruthie's hospitality for the night, playing with my five-year-old granddaughter Cordelia, and eating delicious Korean mall food. A vacation from the vacation, as it were.I'm exhausted, and I still have 480 miles of driving up the coast to go. I'm not sure how I ...
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June 25, 2008
- It's noisy here next to Interstate 10 in room 207 of the Banning, California Travelodge. On top of the freeway noise, we hear the sound of the trains whooooing and chugging. The air-conditioner rattles and blows, and the resident downstairs in room 107 thumps and slams things. I'm so tired I don't care. Last night we stayed in Jerome, Arizona, a mile-high ghost city built on a mountain. Jerome ...
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