North of Nowhere – Bridging Different Worlds

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  • Marvin Didn’t Do It

    Some events you want to forget, but time won’t allow it. The sharp edge of some memories can be blunted, maybe even obscured. The nursery rhyme “Ring Around the Rosie,”… Read more

  • School Bus Scholar

    The 1918 elementary school felt huge, but even to the eyes of a sixth grader the building’s library seemed the size of a telephone booth. There were few other reading… Read more

  • Ejected

    I can finally tell the tale. They say dead men tell no tales and that day I was alive and dead at the same time; being alive won. I was… Read more

  • Kansas City Commodities Report

    The paths we follow in life often spring from a series of personal decisions. Some are so small that they go unnoticed while the bigger ones are plain to see.… Read more

  • Drogonfly

    The beauty and magic of a rainbow fascinates many people. They look for them, going out of their way to point one out. To some, rainbows promise that the worst… Read more

  • When Wheat Was Taller

    Once, a very old man, who could have been mistaken for a more animated sibling to an ancient Egyptian mummy, said that the last time he had seen me I… Read more

  • SYNTAX ERROR for Christmas

    There isn’t a word in the English language that accurately matched my father’s feelings about computers, but let’s settle on the word “detest”. You can use the word “hate”, but… Read more

  • Facing the Reaper

    Most of the time our days focus on what is immediately in front of us, with the trivial and frustrating as its highlights. A coffee spill as we stop short… Read more

  • Harvest Moon

    A lot of the rural life does not see much excitement, especially where I grew up in the “middle of nowhere” USA. It was a big deal when a local… Read more

  • The Choice

    People’s lives, despite their choices, usually follow a general direction, a slightly wavy but for all intents straight line. What we ate for lunch yesterday is one of those minor… Read more

Welcome to Echoes of
Another Time!

Life for some can be an adventure and that is what my writing is about. I will take you on a journey to places now in the past or in another country. The posts will lend perspective to life from the view of different cultures and lifestyles. I hope you will find it rewarding.

I grew up on a small country family farm and now work in Information Technology in a large urban setting. Part educator, essayist, photographer, and general adventurer, I’m making the most that live offers and I hope I can take you along in my writings.

– Mason Shaw

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