Quantcast
Channel: travel – LESLEY WHEELER
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 11 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Lines Composed in Bath a Few Days After Visiting Tintern Abbey

Lines Composed in Bath a Few Days After Visiting Tintern Abbey and Also Nottingham, Coleford, Netheravon, and Miscellaneous Places Viewed Accidentally Because We Forgot to Reserve a Car with Sat-Nav...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Let us hold hands and look

In a Bath Teashop, by John Betjeman “Let us not speak, for the love we bear one another — Let us hold hands and look.” She such a very ordinary little woman; He such a thumping crook; But both, for a...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tough Guide to the Field Guide to the End of the World

Just a postcard here from the end of a very tough term–a cheery note from amid the ruins to show off some good work my students just completed. The last book my composition class read was Jeannine Hall...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

There isn’t a train I wouldn’t take

We just returned from the last of a summer of endless road-trips. This one was definitely the saddest: my husband and his sister buried their mother’s ashes this weekend in her family plot in...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Fuzzy at the edges

Meet our new kitten, Ursula! We brought her home from the SPCA yesterday and she’s charming everyone in the house (except our other cats, who are scared to death of her tiny rambunctious self). I...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Learning, unlearning, and #AWP21

You know the way somebody makes a remark and it clangs in you, your body vibrating with recognition? A friend recently told me that she’s learned a lot over the past year about what she needs to be...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Celebration & consolation

This morning I thought with a start: does “console” mean with-alone? It doesn’t, it turns out. According to the OED, it comes from the Latin con- (with) + sōlārī (to solace, soothe). We used to say...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Listening to Iceland

Iceland’s landscape is gorgeous, but its soundscape is striking, too. I expected to hear crashing breakers and waterfalls, but I forgot there would be a million unfamiliar bird calls. I spotted...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Tendrils, connections, & kindness in publishing

We arrived in Virginia yesterday to a home landscape that’s lusher and more humid. This morning I went to the weekly farmer’s market and the produce has changed: zucchini, beets, and cherry tomatoes...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New year, old places

Chand Baori step-well Qutub Minar Delhi street markets Taj Mahal in the early mist Quranic verses on the Taj Mahal I crossed the invisible border into 2023 while in India. The occasion: my son’s close...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 11 View Live




Latest Images