I have traveled alone extensively in India, and have always felt safe, despite putting myself in questionable circumstances. I disregarded…
Because I wrote a book about my experience of becoming a flying trapeze artist despite—or, rather, because of—a tremendous fear…
In the aftermath of yet another mass killing hate crime in the U.S. and the ensuing inevitable debate about gun…
[Excerpt from my book, Flying Free: Life Lessons Learned on the Flying Trapeze.] “Concentration is the secret of strength.” ~ Ralph…
An amorphous sculpture of a Thai man holding a doll-sized, but otherwise lifelike, Adolf Hitler puppet provocatively greets visitors to Bangkok’s Museum…
I first visited Koh Tao, a tiny island—7 kilometers by 3 kilometers—off Thailand’s southwest coast nearly 13 years ago. Back…
You are a piece of the sun scorching the earth, sparking bonfires and wildfires and rumors. You are infinite, ancient,…
January 2007 Geneva Geneva awakens in the backseat as the jeep hits a patch of ice, skids towards an eighteen-wheeler…
Like Scheherazade, she weaves her tales, stringing words together as if they are charms, adding stars and rubies and angel wings…
Santa Fe’s Frank Ortiz dog park is a sprawling mishmash of trails and brush, winding through an arroyo and up…
