Pocket full of souls

by | Nov 28, 2009 | Uncategorized

Having to go to the bathroom in remote jungle towns of Peru requires currency. What does it cost? One sole. Soles and centimos are the dollars and cents of Peru, but when I heard it initially, encountering a uniformed woman at the threshold of a bathroom asking for...

the unexpected

by | Nov 20, 2009 | Uncategorized

I’m in Brooklyn for the first day of my trans-continental adventure. The apartment where I am staying is in Crown Heights, which meant nothing to me until I was walking from the subway to discover it and realized that the street names and the scenery are all familiar....