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 …
From Sac Town, 2010 to Cactus Land, 1965
For the last year and a half, Mr. T and I have embarked on twice-a-season grand voyages replete with outstanding adventure, exotic …
“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 …
Getting back into the swing of things
Last school year, my flight schedule was fairly regular. Every other week, I boarded a Southwest jet to take me out of …