My mother used to have a sticker on her car that read, “Live long enough to be a burden to your children.” By the age of 31, she had six daughters giving herself plenty of time to fulfil this quest. Twenty three years later my parents departed from the Perth International Airport for the very [...]
Archive for the ‘Transport’ Category
Reversing the Rite of Passage
Posted: 13th October 2009 by Carmen Jenner in Family Travel, The Journey, TransportTags: Family travel, Perth Airport
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Guest Blogger Radames Ortiz
Posted: 6th October 2009 by Carmen Jenner in PROVINCETOWN, The Journey, TransportTags: Airport, Chicago, O'Hare Airport, PROVINCETOWN, Radames Ortiz
Radames Ortiz has contributed to numerous literary journals including, Gulf Coast, Texas Observer, Open City, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Cortland Review and Exquisite Corpse. His work has been collected in various anthologies which include US Latino Literature Today, Regeneration: Telling Stories from our Twenties, and Is This Forever, Or What?: Poems and Paintings from Texas. In 2003 [...]
Paradise Lost in Haze
Posted: 24th May 2009 by Carmen Jenner in Asia, Hanoi, Vietnam, The Journey, TransportTags: Hanoi, pollution, traffic
It’s as though the city has given birth to a million horns and every newborn is crying at the same time to be fed. I wonder how anyone knows who the horns are meant for. I long for a Vietnam I have never been introduced to, and sadly never will. Where are all the gliding ladies on bicycles?
