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Purple is the tandem bicycle you both share while pedaling past chateaus and gardens in the Loire Valley. Purple is the aroma of lavender that sashays around these hills and copulates with the milky musk that grapevines exhale...

And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance. Kahlil Gibran We turned off Highway 395, parked at Toms Place, walked past cabins and trailers up a dirt and gravel road that disappeared into pine forest,...

For Alex Honnold, the first person to free solo a full route up El Capitan You need to be strong, confident, brave, and maybe a little crazy to attempt this feat, a free solo climb of El Capitan, 3000 feet of granite that rises...

Like an urban graveyard, over twenty-seven hundred rectangular concrete blocks cover four acres in central Berlin, form a grid with alleys, long and straight between the blocks which loom like oversized nameless coffins. A lack...

Like the cities themselves,                we are bombarded and assaulted with images                of rubble, old and new architecture                demolished, people in the streets with faraway looks tinged with hunger,...

Sinkers, cutters, curveballs may tease the slugger’s eye, his embedded compass, his powerhouse body, his PHD in defined power and acute proprioception– but beware that mischievous missile of unreturnable pitches,...

Add solar juices, and the cheddar bulbs open wearing tiny Victrola noses promising March melodies, tunes uploaded to a puffy cloud then VRUMM, drowned by a gas mower’s throbbing drone. The landscaper rides a John Deere...

you call it when one goes on this long. But it has to, doesn’t it, end? Didn’t the days you splashed through? The nights you crawled a waning moon? Didn’t the poppies steam and fume, the heron stalk the weedy shallows? Didn’t...