North of Nowhere – Bridging Different Worlds

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  • Memento Mori

    I cut myself today, watching the blood with anticipation. It started as a tiny speck of red life escaping from the cut and grew into a perfectly round drop before… Read more

  • Golden Wash of the Sun

    “Kin, yer dad died”, was the shakey but firm explanation that Mom gave in her Oklahoman accent when I asked why my brother left a message on the answering machine… Read more

  • Mailboxes at a Crossroad

    There was once a small cluster of lonely mailboxes, clinging precariously to a post, just off-center at a crossroads in the Colorado high plains. The last vestige of an old… Read more

  • The One-Finger Wave

    As a kid, I watched Dad greet fellow drivers on a country road with “The One Finger Wave”. One day as a young teen driver, I decided to try it… Read more

  • Chance in a White Box Lunch

    The Web seems to dominate everything. Many of us are “connected at a distance”, managing oh so busy social schedules, friendships, even dating online. Often, computer dating starts with scrolling… Read more

  • I Believe

    At different points in a person’s life, you sometimes reflect back on what has been done with it. As I think about the past, I remember former goals, ambitions, bitter… Read more

  • The Gift

    I’m a Shakespeare fan. No, not of the stiff over-serious actors that play as if farting is life-and-death serious. I’m talking the modern stuff that makes Richard III a corporate… Read more

  • Walking the Grain

    From time to time the news highlights occupations or their practices that are inherently risky, especially in farming, that sometimes end in tragedy. One of those is “Walking The Grain”… Read more

  • Black Blizzard

    As a child in Eastern Colorado in 1977, I experienced what it was like to have lived in the 1930s Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl during The Great Depression was… Read more

  • So, Who’s Died Lately?

    Every time I talk with my mother on the phone, the conversation turns to who has died in the community since the last conversation. That grim, and some would say… 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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