Happy Chinese New Year, y’all.

I’d like to say I brought in the New Year this week with a big bang, but that would have required my leaving the couch.

And, well, I think we all know where I’m going with this.

I did get to listen to a whole bunch of other people [...]

Happy New Year, y’all!

Last year right around this time, I wrote a post entitled “10 Things I Learned After 10 Months of Traveling (with pictures!).” That post was my way of wrapping up my big ten-month tour of Southeast Asia, which had included a whopping grand total of, ahem, five countries. Because, apparently, [...]

Merry Christmas*, y’all.

Now I know that we said that we wouldn’t be getting each other presents this year. (We said that, right? Or at least I know I said that.)

But I got you something anyway!

Ta-da!

(Okay, if you’re reading this blog post on an RSS reader thingie or in an email, [...]

Well, hello there.

Long time, no see.

I apologize for being a bit absent on the interwebs lately.

I know you were all terribly worried.

Possibly you thought I was kidnapped by Mongolian street bandits.

Or maybe you thought I had finally succumbed to one of the many Nineteenth Century diseases I’m convinced [...]

A while back, I wrote that one of the things I love about Americans is that we know how to dream big. As kids, we all want to be rock stars and dolphin trainers and astronauts when we grow up. And, bless our little hearts, we all believe that given enough willpower and elbow [...]