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TYRONE 2011: An essay on my hometown

After a two week trip home to Pennsylvania, I’ve got some new things in the works, including this latest perspective on my hometown. It’s an essay of equal parts photos and words, and it’s best viewed...

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TYRONE 2011: An afterword

I don’t suppose I’m surprised by the amount of feedback I’ve gotten from my Tyrone essay, and I’m grateful for the kind words most people have had to say. Nevertheless, I want to be clear about...

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PHILADELPHIA 2011: Judgment Day

I was in Philadelphia three weeks ago for the first time since begrudgingly, but amicably, moving my wife back there and out of my life last summer. It was absolutely wonderful to see my friends...

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NITTANY MAULE: day hiker

Way back in the summer of 2000, Justin Hoover and I had the bright idea of scaling the power lines of Bald Eagle Mountain in Tyrone. This was a task neither of us would remember as easy, nor even...

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ALTOONA 2011: Pom Wonderful Blah Blah Blah

Here’s your product placement, Morgan. Altoona, PA: branding rights, baseball and the old railroad. These things seem like strange bedfellows, but that’s what’s going on in Pennsylvania’s 10th largest...

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SEATTLE IN JUNE: baseball and other assorted items

This story first appeared on the inimitable The 700 Level. You know, it’s a drag that the Mariners took two of three from the Phillies over the weekend, but you have to admit that it was a great...

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COOL CREEK TO DEVIL’S PEAK: a sunny (and snowy) summer Saturday in Mount Hood...

After a particularly spectacular Friday afternoon in Portland, during which I supped on Northwest fresh oysters, desserted with Leah Krafft and her nutty strawberry-rhubarb crisp, smelled the...

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Avoid staring and gawking: letting it all hang out in Vancouver

After a twelve year separation, Vancouver and I last weekend renewed our steamy, and perhaps a little unseemly, love affair. Vancouver, British Columbia is everything a city could be: big, bustling,...

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NYC: a Westin weekend, 2003

HOWDY, PARDNERS. Been wondering where Maule of America updates have been lately? Me too! So here’s one, exactly two years to the day from when I pulled up my life’s roots, rolled the dice and went...

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Chasing the Dragon

It’s spring again in Philadelphia. Full bloom; suck in the pollen, suck out the politics and Rick Santorum, who shamefully dropped out of the Presidential race the day before I came home to...

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