Nerd Traveler, my collection of travel essays was published in July 2021 by Read Furiously. Sign up for my Newsletter on the home page of this website to receive updates and news!!

Read an interview of me and Nerd Traveler with writer, proofreader extraordinaire, and blogger Jessica Klimesh here: https://jekproofreadingandediting.com/blog/

Check out the video of my Nerd Traveler Book Launch at Bucks County Community College here!  https://use.vg/CaiuS2
I play the clarinet. I played the clarinet. Well, either way when I hear that instrument it is like hearing my own voice. In this essay, I'm seated on a cushion in New Orleans listening to a clarinetist at close range. ​http://bangalorereview.com/2019/09/preservation-hall-at-the-feet-of-my-voice/
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"In the Form of a Charm Bracelet"
My writing colleague, Jessica Klimesh, recently started her own proofreading and editing business, and her business website includes a blog. She's been doing some great stuff there, so naturally I was honored to be invited to guest-post! Here's my contribution about using a visual model to help describe travel writing: ​https://jekproofreadingandediting.com/in-the-form-of-a-charm-bracelet/?preview=true&fbclid=IwAR1GAaF9gj4fGA7kL_qr83jcitSpIxfGTrHcmxMpmlVvzG-E0XPJpSVqy64
This fine anthology of New Jersey related writing includes an essay about Cape May Point by me! Just released in October, 2019, it is available from the publisher (http://www.readfuriously.com/p/the-world-takes.html), from live bookstores, and from those online booksellers, too.
So there was this young man seated behind me on a Vienna bus in 2015. It seemed he didn't like the concert we had just heard which featured the music of Johann Strauss, Jr., and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. I loved the concert. It was light, fun, and very Viennese. As the young man bloviated, I got madder and madder, and ultimately channeled this anger into an essay entitled "Defending the Waltz King." ​www.clevermag.com/essays2/defend.htm
I had a chance to adopt a shiny black baby grand piano. Would it fit in my living room? I figured the piano was as long as I was tall, stretched out on my living room floor to make sure, and then called the piano movers. Read the story in The Piano I Haven't Met Yet in Dragon Poet Review (p. 38). ​https://dragonpoetreview.files.wordpress.com/2018/09/summer-fall-2018-issue-dragon-poet-review1.pdf
By request, I put together a three-week course on the Harlem Renaissance for my biggest fans at a nearby retirement village. This was my first interdisciplinary course as I combined music, literature, art, and dance. It became my most popular course and eventually I delivered a 90-minute lecture on the topic and was interviewed by some eighth graders working on a project. My essay about the experience has recently been published in the Bangalore Review. bangalorereview.com/2017/09/teaching-harlem-renaissance/
I wrote this piece from a prompt: "Describe an Act of Kindness." This experience from Durnstein, Austria, popped into my head immediately. pinkpangea.com/2016/09/memories-kindness-danube/

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