Slipstream
Writing the Backwash with R. H. Sheldon
September, 2010
The Great Outdoors
Several of us sit around the fire pit, at a campground in northern Ohio. A 28-foot RV towers nearby. It belongs to the two men from Canada, the ones who built the fire. They pop open a bottle of Cabernet and pour the wine into large Bordeaux glasses. They discuss the campgrounds they’ve traveled to, those [...]
Tags: camping, gay camping, Illinois, Illinois State Beach Park, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio
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End of the Line
My aunt is the only living relation I still have in the Chicago area. My other relatives have either moved away or died. Or never lived here in the first place. True, I might have a second cousin around the vicinity, and he might, in fact, have children, but he was never really part of our [...]
Tags: aging, elderly, nursing homes, old age, retirement
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American Heartland
First I google it. Then I map it. Then I drive there and sit in the parking lot. I’m south of downtown Minneapolis, just past the airport. My last stop before I head into Wisconsin. The building looms large before me, several stories high, its bulk measured not in feet, but in football fields or [...]
Tags: Badlands, Bemidji, Colorado, Devils Tower, Mall of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mississippi River, Nickelodeon Universe, South Dakota
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