Hiking in sun and fog northeast of Gaucin (setting of Chapter 27 in Fighter Pilot’s Daughter).

Gaucin at sunset on the last day of 2016. No editing or color added!

Tyrone Guthre Arts Centre, County Monaghan, Ireland, where I go for writing retreats

In my Dad’s flight jacket from the Korean War.

Map of the world drawn by Giovanni Vespucci, nephew of Amerigo Vespucci, in 1526. At the Hispanic Society, NYC.  Researching old manuscripts for a project for Acoma Pueblo and found this lovely old map hanging on the wall in the reading room.

The Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer my Dad used for navigating.

Astrolabe, 1450, in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid. Used to chart the stars and calculate time centuries before the clock.

A summer morning at the finca in Gaucin

John at the summit of La Loberia, Gaucín, summer 2017

With Students in “Lit & Film of the 60s” Samantha Tager (left) and Maggie Hughes (right)

Mary in Heidelberg, 1969

Jack and Frannie on the SS United States, 1965

Lawlor family in New Vernon, NJ, just before sailing to Germany, February 1965 (L-R Frannie, Jack, Lizzie, Sarah, Nancy, Mary

With my mother and sisters at the farm in Alabama, c. 1957: (L-R) Lizzie, Nancy, Frannie with Sarah on her lap, and me

Portrait my mother had taken in Miami, 1955, of herself surrounded by us: Lizzie (top l), Nancy (top r), Sarah (lower r), me (lower l)

Thinking of Frannie, my mother and subject of much attention in Fighter Pilot’s Daughter, sketched here in a Saks ad for Intoxication perfume in 1945 when she was working in Saks’s advertising department.

My father in the Korean War pilot’s jacket I’m wearing in home page image

Jack Lawlor climbing into a T-6 Texan Trainer, c. 1943