Endings of Places

Zahida Hafeez Our last vacation before the Pandemic was to two neighboring seaside towns on Michigan’s upper and lower peninsulas, … More

Sonoran Cathedral

Michael Hahn Arid is not a word I would use to describe the Sonoran Desert, a land so alive that … More

Jeff Dunn Steen’s Mountain is a rarely visited shield volcano in the nearly deserted southeastern corner of Oregon. It once … More

Maryam Ghatee Ali was usually very calm when it came to medical problems, so my heart sank when I detected … More

Or that’s what I’d like to think. Is that when it happens, when I feel the acuteness of presence?

I was lost in Barcelona. I barely spoke Spanish. Definitely not Catalán. I had no map and no phone.