Nirvana

Nirvana

drumwordspokenbeat  NIRVANA My neighbor May Bell and I made the plan months ago. We waited for a day when the kids were in school and we were free from work (a short eternity passed by) and then on Friday, February 7 the plan went into action – but where to go? A...
West Kingston Road

West Kingston Road

drumwordspokenbeat West Kingston Road  Today I received a visit from the Messenger. It all began with an ad on Craigslist about a stroller for sale. The post had been up for some time* when I received the email: I WANT TO BUY YOUR STROLLER CAN I PICK IT UP TOMORROW?...
Brazil

Brazil

drumwordspokenbeat  BRAZIL It was on my to-do list forever:   GO TO SMOKESHOP    Right in between feeding my children, meditating for world peace, washing loads of laundry and working as an unpaid taxi driver. A trip to the smokeshop is not the kind of errand you...
Chinatown

Chinatown

drumwordspokenbeat Chinatown  I dialed the second to last digit of the phone number and paused – before I pressedONE — the phone rang several times over static interference from a Spanish-languageevangelical radio station broadcasting on the same frequency. I...
Northern California

Northern California

drumwordspokenbeat Northern California  We had been sitting on the side of the road for more than an hour — every time a car passed by we stood up and held out our thumbs but no one stopped to pick us up. “Isn’t the hitchhiking supposed to be easy around here?”...