DustyBrine

  L istening to John Scofield’s “Kool” here in row twenty on United Airlines Flight 50 back home to Newark.  Appears we’re halfway over the ...

  W e ended up speaking late into the evening, over one and then another bottle of white from Rias Baixas with the French family across from...

  S aved the metropolis for the end of the trip. Driving across Saturday morning Madrid, with a driver named Lovely.  I ask him something in...

  I f you’ve gotten used to the “EZPass” way of paying tolls here in New York, the traditional coin-toss is suddenly stressful in other plac...

  F inally got around to Giles Tremlett’s “Ghosts of Spain” yesterday and was glad to find it more substantive and analytical than I’d expec...

  I got my laundry out on the drying rack first thing, this morning.  Tee-shirts mostly seem to get sweaty and smelly damn fast and I’ve go...

  T he university, first with its frog on the skull façade and then it's unfathomably tall nave that breathes alive with its jeweled pat...