Epistle Summer 2018

This is a sort of update/rewrite of a speech Emilie Finn gave at Yavapai College on Martin Luther King Day, 2006. She was a full-time worker at the Garage then; now she is an Episcopal priest in Surprise, AZ. I have her permission for the changes made, which include...

Epistle Spring 2018

Two not-too-tall travelers tales Pulaski and the Great Switcheroo Pulaski was hitchhiking but mostly hiking walking and walking some more, stalking the end of another endless highway in the parched desert of his particular dreams He found someone doing the same damn...

Epistle Winter 2017

The photos and text are by my daughter Claudia. In September, she and I truck-camped the Tucson-to-Pennsylvania route that Doug (my late husband, her father) and I took on our bicycles 40 years ago. Both trips were great fun, and this time I learned that the Quixote...

Summer 2017: A parable for living

Once, from a long time passing, a young man of good cheer and wonder was traveling on life’s road. His life was new and he thought his future would be full of light and good things. Along his way, he found many things he thought made him happy and he wanted to keep...

A Veteran Tells Some of His Story

Hello, my name is Rook and I’ve got a story for you. I was born in 1982 in South Philadelphia to a large Italian family. I grew up fast, helping my father hang drywall for the union. I started working steady when I was 13 and moved out at 16 years old. I...