What Do I Know?

So I went to my first baby shower Saturday. (Men were specifically invited.) Kathryn, the soon to be father's sister, formally known a...

When people say, "The Reality Is" they are really saying, "I'm interrupting this conversation to bring you THE TRUTH.&quo...

Our guide in Goa pointed to this building way up on the top of the hill. "That is the house of Ali Baba and the 40 thieves," he ...

One of the things I checked before we moved from LA to Anchorage almost 30 years ago, was annual precipitation. Anchorage gets about 16 inc...

Proximity is all important in the world. Yesterday I called Rich Mauer at the ADN to see if he'd be on a panel on legislative ethics Ja...

I had a brief post on our stay at Bambolim BeachResort back in November. I wrote at the time, "The place hovers between elegant and s...

I met with Christian about a week ago to talk about India, particularly our visit with Winnie Singh. Christian had emailed her that we were...

Sitting at latitude 61, we tend to notice the soltices more than other folk. For us it means it is no longer getting darker. So, even tho...

Jodie was a student of mine as well as a graduate assistant in the program, and along with Linda did an incredible job helping (well I did t...

The snow has stopped falling. There was even some blue in the sky and glimpses of sunshine. Off to Campbell Airstrip ski trails. Then int...