September 16, 2014—the official publication date of my memoir, The Coconut Latitudes: Secrets, Storms and Survival in the Caribbean. It’s also the day that I will finally be at the end of my long road home. I mean that in the metaphorical sense, the hero’s journey some say, the return to one’s self. I wrote […]
HOME, BUT NOT
Recently I read a poignant post in National Geographic Traveler by writer Don George about visiting his long-ago childhood home. In it, he describes rediscovering “the layering presence of history.” Seeing his physical house altered by its new owners, he also noted the changes made him feel “It was home, but not.” The full story […]