Michael Marshall

It was easy for me to describe what I felt when I first encountered you.  I had a sense about what to expect.  Afterall, you have been...

Prior to January 17, 1995, I didn’t have much knowledge of Kobe, Japan.  Kobe is a chic port city on Osaka Bay in the western part of the...

Nagoya, Japan, November 2011.  Memories of visiting Japan’s fourth largest city with Shigeo – in his home country, are special.  It’s not...

This is not a story about the weather. We all know the effect of climate change and its impact on our daily lives – felt coast to coast...

Trains, boats, and planes. I’ll take cars over any of them. My love affair with automobiles dates back to the 1960s, when I was a kid. ...

This is a story about love. A simple four-letter word that evokes powerful emotion no matter the place, the kingdom, or time. I’ve...

“Equality requires acknowledgment of inequality.” When I read Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s dissenting opinion recently, I was...

A near death experience... I saw them all. Dad, Mom, Jackie, Joyce, Dineen, and Tye. They are the members of my immediate family who...

Shortly after waking up on the cold December 19th morning, I checked the news headlines on my mobile phone and there it was, “Steeler...

It was a memorial service broadcast via Skype in December 2021. Days of COVID-19 kept us all at home and not in central Florida where...

I saw shades of red, yellow, brown, orange, green, and purple bursting in every direction. It was autumn in all of its glory. I kept...

It may have been that first note of the haunting orchestral violin introduction. Or maybe it was the steady rhythm of the bass line. I...

For as long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by flight. The flight of a butterfly, the flight of a bird, the flight of a...

This is an excerpt from the photo/travel memoir I'm working on. The book is targeted for completion later this year, in the Fall of 2021....

(Like so many of us, I need a vacation. A few months ago, I found myself thinking about memorable events from memorable vacations. This...

The suspense build-up from waiting to be a part of life on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic has been mind-bending. Most of us...

Parisians are used to hearing British English in and around their city. After all, Great Britain is just a short 2-1/2 hour Eurostar...

That day was unlike any other Monday. It was the day after an historic march followed by some raucous and riotous activity the night...

I was firm and optimistic in my belief that we would emerge as modified beings...

THE OTHER SIDE - May 29, 2020 People in southern California have been restless for about two-weeks. There is video of an angry mob on...