Americas Archives - Katherine Dolan Writes

The Brooklyn Greenway

Americas June 14, 2021

If you're ever in Brooklyn, why not take the Greenway? You can bike, walk, roll or run along the coast from Newtown Creek (opposite...

Lost Cats and State Secrets in Vermont

Americas February 24, 2021

“But…we’re in the middle of nowhere!” It was not the first time John had said those words nor would it be the last. The bus...

Giants of Syracuse

Americas August 24, 2019

Last year John and I spent a few weeks near Siracusa, the birthplace of Archimedes and site of a massive stone amphitheater where the...

Buffalo and Bus Rage

Americas August 23, 2019

The other day, we spent a night in downtown Buffalo. Perched on the eastern edge of Lake Erie, Buffalo is the second largest city...

Upstate Idyll

Americas August 20, 2019

For the past few days we’ve been staying at a farmhouse in Upstate New York near Lake Ontario. It’s green, humid and hot, surrounded...

Radio War Nerd Invades Brooklyn

Americas February 24, 2021

It’s one week until THE EVENT and I’m so excited I’m hyperventilating. To celebrate its 200th episode, Radio War Nerd is having a live...

Moonstruck in Brooklyn Heights

Americas August 4, 2019

Last week we joined our friends Jan and Alyssa for dinner and a twilight stroll around the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, directly across the...

Land of Morning Calm on West 32nd

Americas February 24, 2021

Someday I'd like to visit Korea. Its ancient culture has a particular air of mystique that is captured in its beautiful pottery, romantic landscapes...

The Day I Did American Democracy

Americas July 26, 2019

I’m a fan of Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist candidate for the US presidency in 2020. So, when I got an email from his...

Fricking Art Central!

Americas February 24, 2021

One of the great New York traditions that I wouldn’t have seen except for our friends Michael and Jenny is Shakespeare in the Park,...

Selby Junior’s Sunset Park

Americas July 14, 2019

Where we’re living now is not that rough, but you can sort of tell that it used to be. It’s the place Herbert Selby...

Let them Eat Nothing

Americas July 11, 2019

Finding myself in Manhattan yesterday, I decided to make a pilgrimage of three blocks to the Irish Hunger Memorial in Battery Park, between the...

Americas

Portal to Ur

The Other Gallipoli

Beach Walk

Tolkien in Italy