Last week’s Sunday Travel section of the LA Times featured their annual Summer Vacation Photo spread. I always wonder how the editors make their selections from among the many hundreds,…
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A funny thing happened to me on Wednesday. Not the kind of “ha ha” funny, but “hmmmm, that’s interesting” kind of funny. Several weeks ago, I noticed discomfort in my lower…
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I finished! I finally hit the “publish” button at 1:11pm on May 31st. No – not on my long-promised memoir, but on a photo book I promised to create for…
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I birthed a baby last night. Gestation was a little over 9 months. It was a long labor, but not a difficult delivery in the end. I’m proud and happy –…
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NOTE: If you didn’t read last week’s blog post, this one will make no sense at all. In that case, click here to read that one first. It’s called Poop!…
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In 1985, a baby boy was born to a 15-year old unwed mother in a Nairobi slum called Kibera. It was a breach birth, during which she had received no…
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In 1968, Sister Gertrude Mary displayed a map on the front wall of my 8th grade classroom at St. Stephen’s in Saginaw, Michigan. It was a map of Asia, with…
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The humidity hit me with a blast as I stepped furtively from my air-conditioned hotel room into pre-dawn darkness, inching my way over the teak threshold so as not…
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Vietnamese coffee… balloons over Bagan… and slow internet… oh my! Please excuse the recycling of a previous blog post, but as you may recall, I am busily escorting some very…
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updated Sept 7, 2020 NOTE: This blog was originally published on July 24, 2015. If a “country” is defined as a United Nations Member State with voting privileges, there are 193….
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originally published July 24, 2015 What exactly is a “country” anyway? People always ask me, “How many countries have I visited?” I’ve kept a spreadsheet for a couple of years…
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I cleaned out some file drawers at the office this week. We’re anticipating an office remodel and my staff has been badgering me to purge, purge, purge. I’m not comfortable…
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Sometimes I amaze myself. . . . There was a 36-hour period last weekend which was pretty interesting, to say the least. Here’s a chronology of events: (AUTHOR’S NOTE:…
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. . . ISIS, Iran, Iraq, Ebola, strange food, spiders, snakes, bedbugs, needles, ghosts . . .“ I’ve long admired Rick Steves. Didn’t know a lot…
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