Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. – Henry David Thoreau There really is nothing like returning to your childhood home. Or in my case, returning to the place I lived last year as a semi-grown adult. And after spending the last…
If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Cesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I dare say, envied Hercules, who never existed. – Bertrand Russell To the astute reader—or to the one familiar with calendars—today is my first ever, late blog entry. Gasp! “I don’t believe it!” “How could you?” Or as…
I don’t want to be an ant, you know? I mean, it’s like we go through life with our antennas bouncing off one another, continuously on ant auto-pilot with nothing really human required of us. Stop. Go. Walk here. Drive there. All action basically for survival. All communication simply to keep this ant colony buzzing…
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli U-S-A…U-S-A… Wearing the same pair of boxers for the third day in a row, my whole body aching from sleeping in the airport, the 5 euros in my pocket literally the only money I…
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. — Henry Kissinger Ah, servitude. The great role of butlers, limo drivers, and the siblings of brothers with a broken leg. For assuming you didn’t know, my brother, Zach, broke his leg on the monkey bars. And because he just forced me to…
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. – Unknown Loneliness is a most unpleasant sensation. Right up there with being wrong in a dispute with your little sister (as it turned out, I did put the red shirt in with the…