Someone dusted the cobwebs off my Ethiopian goatskin lunchbox. But no one knows who did this good deed. Who could have been so efficient? Wh...

My mother and her husband, who live in the mountains of Virginia above the Shenandoah Valley, are looking for a larger house in the area. Th...

Do you think I could buy this book and save myself the trouble of writing it? I'm kind of disturbed that they're selling it for $5....

Something is amiss in downtown JC. There's 8 houses or condos for sale on my block alone. I saw dozens of "For Sale" signs tod...

I went to the gym today, for the first time since I returned home. While I was living in Kuwait, I never went to the gym. They were really e...

I turned 40 yesterday and it wasn't so bad after all. More importantly, my pal Roberta has an art installation in a show that opened yes...

One of the guys from my Kuwait office posted this on his blog. His blog is anonymous, and he sounds off about plenty on it so I can't li...

I'm not much for celebrating Easter. But I had a houseguest--Sean from Sydney--and I felt that I should do something other than my usua...

Leaving Spain turned out to be something I wasn't really interested in doing. I only went home because I didn't want to be alone on ...

One of the first things I did in Barcelona was try to buy some clothes. Kuwait has a lot of shopping malls but the prices are pretty high. S...