Over the last two decades the odds of wildfires forcing alteration or cancellation of your vacation trips to the western U.S. states and Canadian provinces has markedly increased. I discuss how many travel in those regions has been affected and your need to have a "Plan B" in mind if your trip literally or figuratively "goes up in smoke." (This sto…

Two commentators discuss the documentary film "Remembering Kindertransport." A previous episode of Imagery & Words was based on the soundtrack from that documentary. You can watch the film's trailer here: https://vimeo.com/410852347?share=copyBy Dick Jordan

This is the audio track of the documentary short film "Southeast: Life In The Alaska Panhandle, a photo essay on being a visitor versus a resident of Southeast Alaska. It originally aired on MarinTV, the non-commercial, community TV station operated by the Community Media Center of Marin in San Rafael, California. It has been shown on 79 other such…

The Kindertransport was a British scheme to rescue nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi occupied territories and give them temporary refuge in Britain. The children arrived from December 1938 to September 1939. With the outbreak of war, borders were closed and all transports ceased. Marion Walter was one of those thousands of Jewis…

Have you ever traveled to a destination you had never visited in the past and come away with a clear sense of the place? In this podcast episode, “A Sense of Place,” travel writer Dick Jordan recounts his time in four unique locations in Western North America.By rhjordan

"Choosing Ourselves" (https://choosingourselves.com/) is the most remarkable memoir that I have ever encountered. Memoir writers whom I have heard discuss putting down on paper their recollection of events of their past lives and those who have been a part of it have feared that their friends and family members who appear in this published "life st…