Giants on the Road: Westward! (A Photo Ghazal)

categories: Cocktail Hour

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Seattle again, my college roommate. Bobby, with his wife, Michiyo, daughter, Emi and Emi’s boyfriend, my hosts

Life Among Giants

University Books.

San Francisco, ho!

Book Passage, Ferry Terminal Building

On Telegraph Hill

Booksmith in the Haight

Heading for Portland, OR

Powell’s!

After Powell’s. With Cheryl Strayed and Nancy Rommelman. Brian Lindstrom photo.

Over the pass to Seaside and the Pacific U low-res MFA program

From sea to shining sea

Younger brother of my hometown bookseller! Working on his MFA.

Dinner with Pam Houston and Benjamin Piercy. Ben looked at me and drew this fellow

Jack Driscoll

Freezing Fog

Two passes to Sunriver

and volcanoes

Opened a club

Deon Stonehouse and her family, Sunriver Books, a beautiful store!

Further Volcanoes

Mt Hood–in sight much of the way back to Portland, OR

And down the other side.

And back to Portland for a night off before Kansas.



  1. Tommy writes:

    Beautiful! Stirs up memories, and seeds of future travel.