She was full of energy, youth radiating from her perfect olive bronzed skin. The young lady was barely 20 years old. Her Chanel silk…
A man was closing his eyes. He was almost tearing up. His hands were clasped together, pointing at the picture of Lord Vishnu hung…
Eduardo Dawson had thought the state of Sonora, Mexico would be hot and dry, but the Sierra Madre was not like that at all. …
My mother was delighted with me, by all accounts. Not only was I large and healthy, but I looked nothing like her ex-boyfriend, my…
With him for a sire and her for a dam. What should I be but just what I am? Edna St. Vincent Millay,…
I’d thought Central America would be hot and tropical, but Guatemala was not like that at all. It was cool and almost alpine, with…
Before I left Japan, in the spring of 1968, I went on a farewell excursion with my Tokyo girlfriend, a beautiful, delicate, porcelain creature…
After a two-week trip from Vladivostok, Soviet Russia, on the Trans-Siberian Railway, I fetched up in Helsinki, Finland, without a kopek to my name.…
In the year 1966, I spent my twenty-third birthday on a truck crossing the yellow plains of the Punjab. My happenstance companions: three other…
Now when I try to conjure my essence as a young man, I see myself waking up one morning to the overpowering odor of…
