Essays

I’ve been preparing all of my own meals, virtually every single day, even while traveling, for the past two years.…

Bali (Dog) Adoption & Rehabilitation Centre, founded by Linda Buller, offers care, compassion and a good home to hundreds of…

“One percent of the population meditates; the other 99 percent benefits.”—Sri. M.A. Narasimhan, Yoga Sutras Scholar, Anantha Research Foundation, Mysore,…

One week before I left for my year of traveling in Southeast Asia, I asked my closest friends to join…

An all-species animal shelter in Northeastern Pennsylvania offers refuge, comfort, care and love to more than 100 abandoned, neglected and…

Roald Dahl’s “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” features a child-loathing baroness who imprisons all of Vulgaria’s children in her castle’s dungeon.…

Time to read. That is perhaps the most beneficial aspect of travel for me. Without places to be and a…

Developing countries frequently feature two prices for goods and services: a “local” price for citizens and the foreign price for…

In Indonesia, public school is not free. That’s why Nyoman, the young man who works at my guest house despite…