Fun With Blog Stats

I love looking at my blog stats. Not for the number of hits I get; whatever, they come and go, I’ll keep writing anyway - but for the hilarious peek into the minds of people who use search engines.
I’ve posted about this before, I know - but today’s are plain wacky and just too [...]

Airline Travel - Open Letter to Bill Gates (Yes, Really.)

There was an interesting article in the New York Times about the apparent decline in services, amenities and even common courtesy in the cheap seats on airplanes. OK, well, the article’s alright but they received over 400 comments on it, and the comments are where all the action is. The comments range from [...]

Forgotten Churches of Italy

I have been a huge fan of Stuck in Customs for a while now. I am WAY too dense to understand how he makes his photographs look the way they do, but every day brings an incredible view of the world - and I mean all over the world.
One of my favorite subjects of [...]

Life as I know it.

When I left America, I left behind a loving, supportive family and friends I would take a bullet for. Anyone would be glad to have the life I had there. It was a good life.
When I go back, I am often asked how I did what I did, and how I knew this was the [...]