Three hundred square feet

Our separation was meant to last but a month, but then she didn’t want me back. I had been living in an awful extended-stay hotel, digging a big financial hole by paying the rent with a credit card. I still held out some hope we’d reconcile but the road back looked long. So I looked [...]

Kodak EasyShare Z730

Even though I’ve collected cameras for 30 years, I’ve only had a decent everyday camera for the past few years. By “decent,” I mean a point-and-shoot camera with autofocus and zoom, by no means anything fancy. I am a cheapskate, you see. I used garage-sale fixed-focus cameras until my budding road hobby made me [...]

A gorgeous autumn

I usually dread autumn. It’s not that autumn itself is a problem, but it means winter is coming, and I hate winter. Give me the freedom of shorts and T-shirts year round! But even I have to admit that we are having an unusually gorgeous autumn, and I’m actually enjoying it.
A typical central-Indiana autumn sees [...]

Afternoon of awe

On one of the first warm nights last spring we were standing in the pastor’s kitchen in our shorts and flip-flops after a meeting.
“I keep having this dream about a concert,” Nancy said, “in the parking lot at the church. Over and over again I’m dreaming this. I’m getting the feeling that I’m supposed to [...]

Demolished

It’s gone.

The only vestiges of the old bridge are the places where its arches once touched down. Rebar sticks out like coarse, unruly hair.

Most of the bridge’s pieces must have been carted away, but some piles of concrete chunks remain. This photo looks up at the south approach.

A staggering amount of rebar is left in [...]