OK, I know some of you think I am nuts because I walked away from a perfectly good real estate career to try become a freelance writer. But believe it or not, there are people out there who are pursuing wackier paths than me. Take, for example, Linda Katz, who lives on a prairie in … Read more
I arrived back on the Outer Banks yesterday evening after a 14-hour drive and fell into bed, exhausted. I awoke this morning to dazzling sunlight streaming through my bedroom window. Sitting up in bed, I stretched and gazed out at the sparkling blue water of the Albemarle Sound. I had almost forgotten how stunningly beautiful … Read more
This planet we call Earth is no stranger to catastrophic events. Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a young Earth and a Mars-sized wandering body violently collided, leaving behind orbiting debris that coalesced to become our Moon. Sixty-five million years ago, an immense meteorite crashed into the earth, generating a cloud of dust that obscured the sun … Read more
You just GOTTA love Thailand. Check out this short video of what happens at this railway market in Bangkok. The market straddles the tracks of a rail line in Maeklong, a small town about 40 miles south of Bangkok where the train comes through eight times a day. The shop owners have the timing of … Read more
It’s been a bad week for credit cards. Last Sunday I received a phone call from CitiBank Fraud Early Warning Department, informing me that they were canceling my CitiCard MasterCard because of a “merchant compromise.” They explained that someone had hacked into a merchant’s database and stolen all their stored credit card information. When I … Read more
