As of August 2019, back at home after six months on the road through Asia and Europe.
I've been blogging for close to 20 years, sharing my adventures to 50 countries. Every one has a story to tell, and my aim to tell them all.
I am the epitome of a political junkie. I remember arguing the merits of Jimmy Carter (over Gerald Ford) in public school. Tha
I don’t have a big family, myself. I’m the bratty single kid, and so was my mom. No siblings to play with, and no
I honestly don’t know what she is this year. She wears a crown, but she has wings. Wings, I tells you. But she’s o
O’lantern. This event starting things out nicely. We were invited by Ellie’s best friends parents (oh hell, they
Why I support the idea of Barack Obama. (Photo: AP) Amanda Jones, 109, the daughter of a man born into slavery, has lived a li
Some gratuitous Ellie. Just ‘cos I haven’t posted much lately. PS… Aden, call home!
The scene was quite idyllic. The family cottage (not mine, the Hodgins’) on an island in Killarney Bay. Early 80s, the e
For whatever reason (reasons, no doubt, with which I have nothing to do), I am considered to be a coffee snob. There might be
This is, as they say in the colony, phoquing hillarious. The joke is lost on any who don’t know the French word for seal
The great tragedy of science [is] the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Huxley The monument to Nicolau