Charisma is the fragrance of the soul. — Toba Beta When I was younger, I used to love playing Dungeons and Dragons type games. Well, I still love those action adventure fantasies, I just don’t have the time. All right, I do have the time; I just get exhausted trying to create the voices of friends in my…
The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing. — Tom Fishburne In grocery stores, you often have to swipe a “club card” to get discounts on select items. And although this may seem like an incentive to keep you shopping at their store, really, they just want to know what kind of products their clientele are purchasing—sometimes for…
We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. – Anonymous Every time I’ve traveled to a new place—whether that is a foreign country or another town in Ohio—it reminds me how little of the world I have actually seen. The different clothes, the different customs, the different sauces you use…
For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky Every year around this time, the President of the United States is granted more power than he has at any other point in the year. That is, he gets to decide whether he will grant clemency for the Thanksgiving turkey. Now granted, every…
A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he’s persuasive. — Demetri Martin It’s been a little over a week since my return to the US, and let’s just say the Amazon I am now exploring is not the Amazon I wish I were exploring. But you all don’t pay…
Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta I’m back, baby. After two weeks in Peru, wading through a city of stray but domesticated cats, believing we were stranded in the middle of endless sand dunes, taking rickety planes over ancient ruins, hiking through mountains by moonlight, eating guinea pig,…