by markwestwriter | Oct 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Day 31 – A Brand New Day O’Pino to Santiago de Compostela It was dark when I left my hotel in O Pino and began walking along a highway towards Santiago de Compostela. Huge, belching semi’s passed me in the dark, a harbinger of the life I’d soon return to. Since I...
by markwestwriter | Aug 6, 2021 | Slider, Uncategorized
by markwestwriter | Nov 3, 2020 | Blog, Camino Blog, Uncategorized
FIRST IMPRESSIONS- Autism, Karl Rove, and the Lesbian Governor Changing first impressions is hard. It’s even harder when that impression is tied to something one has a strong emotional reaction to- Barack Obama is black and wasn’t born here, Ann Richards is a...
by markwestwriter | May 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
I had been going through a rough period and was questioning my life, my choices, my marriage. It was a year or two after the recession and things had gotten bad at home, my wife and I disagreeing on just about everything, even though we were doing better than most it...
by markwestwriter | Sep 21, 2017 | Beauty, Uncategorized
I walked along the beach in Finisterre picking up a few scallop shells to bring home and wondered if I really would be able to, as Thomas Wolfe said, “… go home again”. Not that I wouldn’t be able to physically go back home again, but I wondered with the changes...
by markwestwriter | Sep 7, 2017 | Camino Blog, Uncategorized
Olveiroa was definitely a beat town (Rachel had described it as a “cowboy town”), although when I left I passed by a cool restaurant/pension. An old stone building was faced with glass, and it gave a contemporary feel to this old stone building. I hadn’t run across it...
