Traveler’s Guilt: 5 Ways to Shut it Down
I blame Pliny the Elder for the whole ‘home is where the heart is’ claptrap. For providing the ammunition used…
Tag: complaints
Big Fat Problems
My dog Gracie has been complaining a lot lately. Like many people I know, she complains about the government, which…
Mile-High Class Warfare
Not long ago, I was accidentally seated in First Class on a flight from Portland to Houston. Accidentally, because there were…
I’m Downsizing While a Bicycling Burglar Cases the Neighborhood
I watched a burglar bicycle past my house today while I sipped cappuccino and watched my dogs wrestle in the…
Reinvention Through Travel and Why I Never Wore Those Stupid Green Pajamas
In a Dispatch a while ago, I mentioned an Irish radio show I listened to one morning while driving from Ireland’s…
The Time Dublin Gave Me the Cold Shoulder
I have entered an alternative Irish universe called Dublin and I don’t recognize it. At breakfast this morning at O’Malley’s…
Oslo: The New Big Smoke
London has cleaned up its act, in terms of ye olde air polluters, and so the old nickname “The Big…