Boston
Downtown Crossing, Boston, Massachusetts © 2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKer.com Tax-deductible business travel is one of the blessings of what has recently been dubbed “gig-work.” Gig workers take on short term projects, usually as independent contractors. Along with the tax benefit is a personal one: These extended stays for
Travel
© 2010-2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com BOSTON For the Californian, San Francisco comes to mind . But not so hilly, Walkable. But bricks, bricks, red bricks. Omnipresent. We’d have ‘em too except for ours Being shattered and culled in epic quakes. And so many Irish Pubs And other old
California Travel
©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net October 30, 2020 In my previous post, Travel | CaliforniaNotes I likened Texas and California as both being countries-within-a-country. Actually, California is more like a continent-within-a-(former)country. From semi-tropical San Diego and Los Angeles, to the Scotland-like, extreme North Coast, with
California Travel
©2020 by Vernon Miles Kerr, VernonMilesKerr.com, WritersClass.net California and Texas have a few things in common. They’re both big, both beautiful and both could be—and actually, both used to be. countries — republics. Both have endless beaches, semi-tropical cities, a coldish North, world-class agriculture — along with mountains
California Highways
California Daydreamin’ © 2020, 2021 by Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com Loved those lyrics, “…don’t know whatcha got till it’s gone,” That’s the upside of Coronavirus— If there is one. For a California road-warrior, lockdown is hell. After wearing-out tons of tires — (In leaner times even down to
Forrest Park
St. Louis © 2010, 2016, 2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com What on Earth can compare to the Arch? No superlative is adequate. Nothing prepares you for that first glimpse, No travelogue, no picture in the Nat. Geo. Soaring above the downtown skyscrapers, Its satin-silver face reflects The sky and clouds,
Japan
Tokyo ©2010,2016,2020 Vernon Miles Kerr, vernonmileskerr.com She is more than huge, she is blatantly contradictory. She’s American-ish, but Japanesey; Familiar but exotic; Traditional but wildly avant garde.; Savoring but guzzling; Giddily young but staidly elderly. Near Shinjuku station it’s girls in blue jeans And tiny
Absolute Power is fleeting
Poetry | A Compendium © 2017 Vernon Miles Kerr As the banner, above, suggests, I dabble in several (non-exclusive) areas of the writer’s art. But, during the time I have been posting to this blog, my poetry is the only area which has garnered “likes,” comments and followers. Which is amazing
Boston
Travels © 2010, 2016 by Vernon Miles Kerr When a provincial is called upon to travel His luggage includes the place from whence he came. He drags it along and holds it up as a ruler Against every novel thing he sees. But that’s not bad. It serves to avoid