I didn’t sleep too hot at Esther’s, for what reason I cannot comprehend. On one of the occasions that I was awake, I checked my phone and found a message from Jim, who was due to arrive the next day: “Computer malfunction dumped fuel and returned to Atlanta.” Needless to say, this was a worrying…
My least favorite part of traveling abroad is… the traveling. I love BEING in foreign places, but the traveling between them can often be tiring. That’s why, when I travel, I pick a few places to visit for longer periods of time. Travel can seem very unlike a vacation when you’re just hurrying around all…
I took an hour bus ride this morning to Picadilly Circus – a very “exciting” part of London crammed with theaters and expensive stores. London is a great place to navigate as the streets do not ever change. I used a map from 10 years ago and was able to find my way around just…
Before leaving for Europe, I gave a lot of thought to my technology choices. In particular, I was considering what to do about my cell phone issue. Whilst I lived in Florida, I was using T-Mobile as my cellular service. They had 4G service, great coverage and a good selection of phones. However, there is no…
Today started off fantastic because I slept most of the night despite the fact that they were the wrong hours for me to be normally sleeping. In fact, when I woke up around 7:30 a.m., it was really 2:30 a.m. back home in the States. One of my hosts, the lovely Shalene Wong, made me…
As I sit here eating Triscuits in a flat in London, I think about how strange it is that just last night I was in Detroit. It’s strange because Delta felt I should fly two hours in the wrong direction before flying to London. To their credit, my travels were extremely smooth. Flights were on…
We are a society of the here and now. Many decisions we make as individuals and as a nation are short-sighted and focus on immediate gain. The result is that our lives get messed up over the long term, and then we get frustrated wondering how that could’ve happened. I recently experienced this phenomena firsthand.…
After having lived in Sarasota for 8 years, St. Petersburg is now my official home in Florida. Not only that, but I live right in the downtown area in an apartment on Central Avenue. Although a suburbanite in Sarasota, I was on a fabulous bus route and only 3 miles from downtown. I didn’t own…
For those of you who really know me, you’re probably surprised that I’d like to get some backyard chickens. Surprised because, at the moment, I eat neither chicken nor eggs! However, backyard chickens offer a few remedies to the reasons for my food choices. First, the reason I don’t eat chicken is because of the…
I know it’s easy for people to say, “We’ve had tornadoes before in Massachusetts,” and “The Mississippi always floods,” and “Vermont always floods.” But come on, people, I know you see a pattern of bad weather that is not normal. Flooding is one thing, but severe, continued flooding is another. One tornado 60 years ago…