So, most of this blog will be, as advertised, a travel blog about music, physical places and place. Sometimes though that “place” becomes our inner landscape, the place through which we experience transformation. So this week, with no physical place of travel to link my love of Aretha Franklin to, I brought her into my … Read More
Surprise!
It’s been two days of extreme smoke on our disaster tourism jaunt to Ashland. Plays at the Shakespeare festival shut down. Ash in our hair. The pool and hot tub I dreamed of lounging in not the least bit appealing. We decide to leave for Mt. Shasta early, thinking that just maybe the smoke situation … Read More
Driving into the fire
After a week of indecision and a fight in the supermarket Dan and I decided to drive into the fire. We’d planned a trip up to Ashland for Labor Day weekend and nothing was going to deter me. Not my friend Helaine in Ashland saying they were fleeing to Portland to get out of the … Read More