Kurt R.A. Giambastiani's Blog, page 27
May 10, 2019
Road Trip 2019: Northbound 3
At this point, if I as a newly-minted sixty-something had learned anything, it was . . . well . . . that I was sixty-something.
May 9, 2019
Road Trip 2019: Northbound 2
While the first section of our road trip north was one of discovery, the second section was focused on re-discovery.
May 8, 2019
Road Trip 2019: Northbound 1
Driving the California coast on Highway 1 comes with challenges.
April 23, 2019
Road Trip 2019: Southbound
The last time my wife and I took a really-for-real out-of-state vacation was about eight years ago, so when she said she wanted to visit her brother down on the coast of California, we decided to turn it into a road trip.
April 18, 2019
Death of the Immortal
In the moment, I watched, transfixed, gut-punched, as flames colored the smoky nimbus with an infernal glow.
April 11, 2019
The Distance Between Us
My father was an analog man. The grandson of a charcoal burner (yes, that was a thing), the son of a cement truck driver, my father was an artist by passion and a lithographer by trade, back in the day when his trade was not far removed from actual litho-graphy, i.e., etching graphics on hunks of limestone
April 4, 2019
There and Back
I am a child of the Space Race. The heroes of my early youth (aside from Walt Disney and JFK) were the astronauts of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions.
March 26, 2019
March 21, 2019
What Would Leonardo Do?
Isaacson's analysis of Leonardo's life, personality, virtues, and faults, is engagingly warm and human, bringing the deified icon of the Italian Renaissance back down to earth.
March 14, 2019
Be More Specific
It was late, but there was a question that had been nagging me all day. I knew the answer—I'd known it for years—but it was lost, huddled in some dark cupboard of my mind where it had collapsed in a comatose heap, surrounded by dust bunnies, reeking of gin.
