Rambling Around

                         I love to travel but I hate traveling.                 I know that sounds like a contradiction, but it’s […]

“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.” … Alan Paton, […]

 “To see thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain […]

As a professor of communication, I’ve always looked down upon what I considered the lesser of the discipline’s forms – […]

           “The views were immensely wide … everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequaled nobility … […]

Memories are both the reminders of our past and the guides for the future.  Most of the time we describe […]

Zorba the Greek, from the 1946 novel of the same name, was a man with an enormous zest for life.  […]

What an amazing difference a day makes.  Just yesterday I awoke to an empty apartment, very quiet and empty. It […]

Today began early.  Very early. In fact, it began a little after midnight when, awakened by the familiar jangling of […]

The first question many people ask when I excitedly announce I will be going global on yet another solo adventure […]