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Johnny and Maureen and me. Hanging in Tangier on Revolution Day here.
August 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
PILGRIM LIFE: Tangier. And so my summer in Morocco begins with a traditional Tangier breakfast. Back to olives and roasted figs and yogurt with my eggs . They like turkey here instead of bacon i.e. pork. And great coffee. Onward …
June 2, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I am leaving this book behind as a gift to the library here at Casa p309 in Porto for future fellow guests as I set off to fly to Tangier for this summer’s portion of my pilgrimage.
June 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Next. Tonight I leave Porto after my two months here to fly off to Tangier for the summer. It will be a return there after my two months last year there. It will be a bit of a homecoming in its way. See you tonight, Morocco. Three photos from my time there last fall.
June 1, 2025 at 8:31 AM
seven years ago on this date I was saying hello to this guy after his performance in Boys in the Band on Broadway. Matt Bomer has always been a good actor but in the intervening years he has just gotten better and better and better. His work in Fellow Travelers was truly deeply great.
May 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Arriving home from seeing a film last night then looking out at that moon hovering over my Airbnb’s garden here in Porto while I cooked my dinner. LLife can be lonely but also lovely. It is in such simple quiet moments where I find the most gratitude living this pilgrim’s life.
May 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Porto. My afternoon. A Sunday matinee at this remarkable theatre.
May 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My latest Saturday Rubrics are up. Check them out. Link in the comment section. Thanks.
May 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Porto. About to head up these stairs at NOS Cinemas here inside the gigantic mall known as Norte Shopping to see my old friend Dan Minahan’s new film On Swift Horses. Small world indeed .
May 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My afternoon in Paris.
May 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Paris . Tonight The Seagull at Comedie Francaise .
May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Paris. Here for a couple of days of culture and long walks.
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Surrender face. When you get up at 5 a.m. to get to the airport 2 hours early and your flight to Paris departs an hour late. So you tell yourself, man, you woke up in Porto and are going to bed in Paris. It’s all about context. Onward …
May 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Thought you’d get a kick out of this. This is my new 86 year old friend named Carol who is moving here to Porto from ny’s upper east side and changing her life. It’s never too late . An inspiration. When I told her I was 69 she said, “a youngster, darling, a mere youngster.”
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Foz, Portugal.
April 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A Jesuit in 1958
April 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
PILGRIM LIFE: Porto. An Easter window in a neighborhood barbershop.
April 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A neo-fascist and a fascist walk into a bar …

Or the Kremlin .. oh, no, wait .. it’s the White House which just looks like the Kremlin. It politically has resembled lately but visually does as well now that The Tacky Know-Nothing Fascist Vulgarian has moved back into it.
April 18, 2025 at 11:14 AM
PILGRIM LIFE: Porto. Lunch today with my new friend Carol who is moving here from NYC’s Upper East Side. When I told her I am 69, she said, “A youngster.” She is an inspiration. Onward indeed …
April 15, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Like her Dear Leader, every accusation is a confession from this one. Stefanik said of Harvard after its leadership stood up to Trump and his fascist fist regime that the university is the “epitome of the moral and academic rot in higher education.”

No. Wrong. This is the face of moral rot.
April 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
NY TIMES headline writers take note
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
I can guarantee you there aren't 8 people in the GOP to do this because they are all either fascists are fascist collaborators, a distinction without a difference.
April 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I hold every last person who voted for Trump responsible for America becoming a fascist pariah nation. Every. Last. One.
April 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM
If Pennsylvania’s Governor Shapiro and his family had lived in a Tesla dealership, Trump and members of his now fascist GOP would have been condemning this. But on the first night of passover after Shapiro and his family had had a Seder dinner in this house and this arson having occurred: crickets.
April 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
PILGRIM LIFE: Porto. A Sunday beach day.
April 13, 2025 at 8:33 PM