I love it when the bloggers participating in Passports with Purpose (PwP), the annual travelblogger’s fundraiser, make the cause personal. I love it when they tie their experiences, either out in the world or at home, to what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. I’m of the “All politics are personal” school of thought …
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It’s that time again, we’re opening our fourth annual fundraiser for Passports with Purpose. This year we’re supporting the literacy program Room to Read — I’ve written about why I like this cause here, but that’s not what I want to tell you about now. Right now, I want to tell you that I have …
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I used to have a line in my bio that said I was “waiting for Conde Nast to call.” Well, that has happened, in a few different ways over the past few years, though please don’t think I was just sitting at home wishing, I actually did some things that caused it to happen. Anyway, …
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I have two or three opinions about what one ought or ought not to do with a blog, you might have noticed. And the reason I’ve got to be so opinionated about this kind of stuff is that really, without this blog, well, I’d have a different life. This year, blogging sent me to crunch …
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Slideshow misbehaving? Here’s the static photo page. And I may have got some names spelled wrong; I welcome corrections, I’m happy to make it right.
The kid is a live wire. He’s jittery, his presence makes me nervous, afraid, almost. From where I sit I can see him staring at himself in the wardrobe mirror with great intensity. It’s not right, it’s not just vanity, it’s something scarier. Meth, I think, or blows to the head. There’s an electricity coming …
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