Daily Musing: Cocaine is not for kids
The Williamsburg Bridge. (My sis and I walked it from Brooklyn to Manhattan!) Lola first tried heroin when she caught her husband …
Daily Musing: Accounting for creative terrorists
La Guardia Airport. Dig that graphic. In the last 48 hours, I’ve traveled to New York and back, sleeping approximately 8 hours, …
Daily Musing: Red-eyes and gypsy cabs
So as not to lose a whole day traveling east, I took the red-eye to New York last night. After a “minor” …
Daily Musing: Organizing my snacks
My travel gauntlet begins. Red-eye to New York tonight. LA, Honolulu, Chicago, Oklahoma and Seattle after that. At least I will be …
Thursday 13: Confessions, volume II
Life has been whirlwindy lately. I just got home from an excellent academic conference in Monterey. I gave three presentations and per …
Monterey magic: Are we there yet?!
It has not escaped my notice that most of my future “vacations” may be inextricably linked to conference locations in perpetuity. Case …
Thursday 13: Moonwalking
A cool breeze on my face. Books in a bicycle basket. Peals of laughter. Although Tempe, Arizona is just about nothing like …
“Not today” and other ideas for visiting “The City”
Photo credit For most people, November means Fall, Thanksgiving, football, Black Friday*. For communication nerds, it also means NCA or the National …
It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it
As you may know, I practically live at the airport. I fly home every other week when I’m lucky, and I spend …
Hopscotch Honeymoon Part XIV: Ending the moon in Moab
We started in Sacramento, ventured to Sedona, Santa Fe, Eureka Springs, Hannibal, Chillicothe, Oshkosh, Traverse City, Mackinac, Keokuk and Colorado Springs with …