I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential ...

TSA-friendly Monkey Tool. I mentioned the handy and thin Monkey Tool before but that was back in 2022 so I’m bringing it up again. Dozens of trips later, I still haven’t run i ...

A paved hike- and bike-only path in central Minnesota that skirts a dozen lakes. Built on built on an abandoned Burlington ...

A blue and white winter, perfect like Snow, shines out of the window at Macy’s. The stepmother’s scenes are often washed in ...

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Appetites: A Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain Ecco 2016, 304 pages, 8.2 x 1.0 x 10.0 inches, Hardcover ...

In the world of scenario planning, the fact that something is unthinkable should not prevent us from considering it. The breakup of the Soviet Union was unthinkable almost until the day it happened.

I get an awful lot of my news these days from email lists. I'm reading more and more of them and less and less magazines, and even less web sites. But lists are reviewed nowhere that I know of, and ...

Sign up here to get What’s in my NOW? a week early in your inbox. I am a K-12 Technology Teacher who presents globally on student agency and educational technology ...