March 2013 – Clay Russell

When I was a little boy in Houston a cat and a dog lived with us. Lickie the cat was jet black and…

I went for a walk yesterday. It was raining a little and the sky was grey and low. A snail was making its…

The first time I traveled overseas was the summer of 1973. I was eleven, and my grandmother took my mother and me to…

(CAUTION: Contains graphic language.) Barcelona is an easy city to visit because you don’t really have to plan anything. You don’t have to…

I’m well aware of the concept of east-is-east-and-west-is-west but I want to commingle two parts of my life here just this once. I…

This is a travelogue, part guide and part journal of three days in Barcelona. Very simply, it’s a stunningly beautiful city. You can…

It’s always been the most interesting to me to live in places where there are seasons. I like the change and I like…

The sun is out today and the sparrows are making up for a wet, dreary week. There’s a chirpfest happening outside my window….

Some years ago Calvin and I spent a week 1000 kilometers from here in Brittany, in a charming medieval town called Dinan. During…

Today I went grocery shopping, an activity fascinating enough on its own, but it was the travel involved that makes this story especially…

Clay Russell