Channel Markers & Road Signs: stories from Mile Marker 604 to the open road & back is the record of journeys from the Port of Louisville to the pretty much everywhere. There are poems, stories, essays about life on the river, on the road, and at home.
Poet, essayist, tale teller, and gentleman scholar with well-worn heels. Steamboat fireman. Former educator, former journalist. Bit of a grackle.
This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.