Locations to See: Around the World Travel

What does hubris mean? Can you use it a sentence? Sure! Here’s an example of hubristic teen boy and how it was actually inspiring and helpful to have pride!

For the first part of the Robert Burns Scottish Dinner, no one would tell me what is actually IN Scottish Haggis. “You’ve had McDonald’s before, right?” said David. “Well, then …

It is difficult to write this because the heat has been broken in my apartment for five hours, and my bones (finger-bones included) are now ice-encrusted. Maybe you’ve heard: we’ve …

What is the History of the Paramount, Boston? This quote from a March 3, 2010 Boston Globe article by Geoff Edgers sums up what you’re about to read about the …

What magic, the advancements that have occurred within the past few years in our “Developed” country! I’m astounded at the changes that have taken place in the United States within …

There’s at least one moment every few days when I think to myself: “Teaching really is the best career in the world.” Sometimes this thought is spurred on when a …

I had a lot of reasons for leaving my career and home to travel around the world in August of 2009, and one of them was a vision of starting …

I have another piece entitled: “The 7 Most Delicious Foods of Around the World 2009.” Yum! Now another year of voracious eating has passed, bringing my munching mouth through Ghana, …

Imagine you are schlepping a bulbous suitcase down the stairs in New York’s Penn Station on Christmas Eve, squeezing through hundreds of stressed travelers to board the train for DC. …

Exactly one year ago, I was almost arrested in Bangkok, Thailand for bringing an illegally smelly fruit onto a public train. You can read the whole dramatic story by clicking …