24 September So I missed a day, it was inevitable. I’m writing from the dining room table of my Couchsurfing host in a suburban development outside of Asheville, North Carolina.…
I had every intention to be camping right now but a wrong turn found me driving narrow, winding country roads as the sky flared in the pink and pale orange…
21 September I learned last night around this time that I have cause to go to Nashville. So I’m still in Alexandria having spent much of the day plotting my…
20 September 2016 Hi. I’m not really sure what to write about today. My organiser is off at GOTV (Get Out the Vote) Training in some remote part of Virginia,…
19 September 2016 Sometime last week I followed a link on Facebook and registered my interest in seeing Michelle Obama speak at George Mason University. As I stood in the…
18 September 2016 King Street is a pulsing artery of pedestrian traffic. It was Art Festival weekend in Alexandria. The weather, while still warm and humid, has turned comfortable and…
17 September 2016 It’s late in the day and I’d planned on writing about seeing Michelle Obama speak at George Mason University yesterday. But that will take actual writing and…
16 September 2016 I’m less melancholy today but I still want to finish this story of how I went from politics, to baseball, and back to politics again, and back…
I’m in a melancholic and nostalgic state of mind today. Sixteen years ago, on 15 September 2000, Cathy Freeman lit the Olympic flame in Sydney. I watched that Opening Ceremony…
I find weather to be a difficult thing to imagine accurately. I lived in Washington DC in the 1990s and know what summers are like here but in the cool…
Elizabeth