by Steven Higgs | Oct 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: The following essay was written in 2009 in The Bloomington Alternative as part of a series called “Forty Years in Bloomington: A Memoir.” Plan Colombia: Part 1 — Part 1, Wall Hangings and Cartegena Plan Colombia Part 2 —...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
When Pablo Escobar scotched my plans to photograph the Upper Amazon Rainforest in 1976, I turned to the closest jungle I could find to satisfy my innate desire to journalistically explore the woods – the Hoosier National Forest. Exactly one year after my first trip to...
by Steven Higgs | Oct 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
To suggest that Tabatinga’s Mirador Komara is the best place for sunset over the Amazon River would be folly, given the enormity of the river’s geographic expanse. But the outdoor club on the southern outskirts of the Brazilian city would make any list, especially if...
by Steven Higgs | Sep 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
Editor’s note: What follows is the foundation for a talk I will give at the Heartwood Reunion on Friday, Oct. 3, and revise for upcoming events at Morgenstern Books, Juniper Gallery, and WFHB Community Radio’s Big Talk with Mike Glab. *** Before I begin relating my...
by Steven Higgs | Sep 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
PHOTO ALBUM: Trieste, Miramare Castle, James Joyce,Duino, Rainer Maria Rilke Thinking Path I’m no expert on James Joyce’s place in literary history. But as we strolled along the Grande Canal de Trieste, I knew I was walking in the literal footsteps of the writer for...
by Steven Higgs | Sep 13, 2025 | Uncategorized
When we sat down in Santa Rosa, Peru, for our first experience on the world’s greatest river, the thought of a military jet flying over the Brisas del Amazon restaurant to send a hostile message was totally counterintuitive. We had landed in Leticia, Colombia, the...
