[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…
On the day I flew without safety lines for the first time, it was a Tuesday morning in April, the…
I stand in front of Port Authority in New York, bundled in fleece and faux down, scarf wrapped up to…
Mark left when the snow arrived. He’d shown up in Scranton last spring, his California tan ruddied from his time…
