There’s a dress code in Taos, New Mexico: it’s called wiping your boots on the back of your jeans if entering a fancy restaurant.  I arrived here two days ago,...

“I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious.” –Albert Einstein The word ‘curiosity’ has been getting a lot of attention lately.  So much so, in fact, that it...

What if someone told you to go jump in the Hudson River or the San Francisco Bay?  You’d probably reply with a few expletives and hand gestures (especially if you’re...

San Francisco loves theme parties.  Bay to Breakers, Gay Pride, Chiditarod (a play on the Alaskan dogsled race with shopping carts and group costumes started here in SF prior to going nationwide), the...

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Portland, Oregon is where it’s at.  Where else can you find massive sunflowers lining alleyways, roses lining street corners, and city parks with 5,000 or more acres?  Perfect lawns and...

Relief has arrived after 10 years of merciless drought in Southwestern Colorado.  This was visible last week driving through lush hillsides and neon green valleys from central Colorado en route...

Of the 9 different places I lived in by the time I was 22 (including Germany, Florida, California, Colorado, NJ and Pennsylvania), the most extraordinary one has always been our...

“Are you going to move forward?” I looked up from my phone. My internet was suddenly working at top speed and I was absorbed in reading all the Facebook comments from...