Curitiba — Are you like me, you panic if you don’t have a book with you on a flight? I don’t remember the last time, if ever, I boarded a plane without reading material. Lots of it. Usually I would carry on at least the book I’m currently reading, or the books I’m currently reading if I am into more than one at once and neither of them conquered my full attention, and at least one option (but often more than...
San francisco — For this episode, I actually made some paper planes, but it was harder than I remembered. When it flew well, I felt as if some kind of magic took place. Well, it was a magic.
Sevenoaks — Regular visitors to Hi will know that I have a thing about historical postcards. Personally I think they are a much-neglected source of historical evidence that deserve greater study, although there ...
Portland — What I see in my mind’s eye is that I am still in the process of dissecting a moment, and as I bring my scalpel of language to cut open this moment about the word mesmerized, just as when Salvador Dal...
Reading in airplanes.
Do you remember how to make a paper plane?
Terrible American airlines experience. I think I'm starting to hate flying in general. Except for the arriving bit.
Catching swallows
Leaving a glorious spring Tokyo for frozen NYC
"a case of mistaken identity..."
Flying from Paris to London, 1910 style