This list contains some of my favorites. They are travel pieces and stories I reread because the phrases have come together in a way that recalls for me a moment, a place, or a person better than mere memories can. It’s as if I’ve never read the piece before, never wrote it.
The order of posting is not personal preference; although I sometimes reread the first five and enjoy them as if someone else wrote them and I had never seen them before. Maybe it’s just age.
- Tuscan Sun (published July 2016)
- I can hear the mermaids singing (July 2016)
- Tender is the Night (July 2016
- Stolen Moments (Aug 2016)
- The Dregs of Happiness (Oct 2016)
- Who Would Fardels Bear? (Nov 2016)
- Hesitation (Nov 2016)
- The Terrorist Always Travels Second Class (Jan 2017)
- Golden Lads and Girls (March 2017)
- Drunken Monkey Whores (June 2017)
- In the Shape of a Heart (Aug 2017)
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Oct 2017)
- Cabo Loco (April 30, 2018)
- You Can’t Argue with a Fortune Cookie (June 14, 2018)
- Betrayal (May 2018)
- Crazy Lucy (July 2019)
- A Still Point (Jan 2020)
- The Favor (July 2021)
- Venetian Tides (May 7, 2022)
FOOTNOTES by John Atkinson 