Escape Velocity
Mac GanderEssays and notes offering fresh perspectives on politics, society, and culture
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Astrid and the Brooklyn Bridge
Astrid and the Brooklyn Bridge
Around the time I turned 60 I lived alone in a small urban apartment, just big enough to give my two dogs the spare room. I hadn’t been alone like that for a long time, more than 25 years, and it was not a pa...
[COPY] I have been traveling
Traveling for a couple of months, as an escape from what might already count as travel for most folks, since home is in Brazil now and I am still getting accustomed to that reality—that winter in Brazil is like April in Vermont, but long—I...
Sad Heart At the Supermarket
A snapshot from the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, 2017: I have always felt that this particular piece of that enormous installation, the work of four decades now, conveys as well as anything could the despair
During the weeks I spent fou...
The Times Are Never So Bad
Sunset through the ruins, Porto 2026
I doubt that anyone my age would disagree that we have entered the most dangerous period in the postwar era, a passage of history that seems likely to mark the end of one age and the beginning of anothe...
A Personal Note
Sunrise in Salvador, Bahia
I have been traveling and haven’t written here for a while. My partner Priscila and I took a place in Porto, where we first met, figuring it would be a good home base for a couple of months in Europe, and while i...
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Background in journalism, creative writing, college teaching, higher education administration. Trained ADHD and writing coach, certified Recovery Coach. Most of life spent in Manhattan or Vermont. Currently live in Brazil.
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