travel Archives - Esther Cohen

THE MAN AT THE AIRPORT WHO CHECKS YOU IN THE FUNNY GLASS BOOTH

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

THE MAN AT THE AIRPORT WHO STANDS OFFICIALLY IN FRONT OF THE GLASS BOOTH WHERE PASSENGERS STAND ON YELLOW FOOTPRINTS AND RAISE YOUR HANDS ABOVE YOUR HEAD THE MA...

Cab Driver/Poetry/politics/travel

Jacob Comes from the Ukraine and Drove a Cab for 25 Years

Posted on January 23, 2020 by Esther Cohen / 5 Comments

(When someone picks us up in a car to take us to the airport, I feel like writing a poem. This is a mid-serial bonus) Jacob picks us up on time and he is...

choices/food/politics/travel/Traveling

Ecuador

Posted on October 14, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 0 Comment

We were supposed to spend this week in Ecuador little like Peru friends said we loved Peru last Saturday in a bar in Mystic Connecticut before Peter’s sc...

Poetry/strangers/travel/TRUE/words/writing

I AM TEACHING GOOD STORIES THIS WEEKEND AT THE HOBART FESTIVAL FOR OMEN WRITERS

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 2 Comments

FOUNDED BY BREENA AND CHERYL CLARKE. HERE’S HOW IT HAPPENED: A while ago Hobartten years maybe more my friend Amy was invited to be guest agent in New Me...

About Me/friendship/Getting Older/hope/prayers/summer/travel/words/writing

Plan B (Real Meditations)

Posted on August 22, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 8 Comments

Still summer. Don’t worry that summer will be over. Summer is never over. Memory is as real as summer. My father bought a beach house with his Cornell ...

holidays/hope/travel/Traveling/TRUE/words

Going to the AZORES (3,4,5,6)

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Esther Cohen / 6 Comments

3 Five hour flight to San Miguel biggest island of 9. We’ll stay there this time. Watched Big Little Farm Amy Sedaris and Doctor Ruth. They all had th...