To answer a question in the comments about how much novel I’ve done this week, alas: not much. Wrote one chapter, and it was one of those recap conversations where the characters synthesize everything they’ve learned, so we all know where everything’s going. Since these usually feel like clip reels, I try to end with [...]

It never ends! Never! Believe me, there’s one more after this. As for this week, it will forever go unrecorded, lost to history forever. History will just have to deal with it.

So, go HERE for Pompeii – and perhaps the most remarkable downtown shopping mall you’ve ever seen. Bonus: it’s from the 19th [...]

Perhaps the most photographic city in the world. Episode Four! Go HERE.

Part two of the European Adventure: it’s Florence. Go HERE for more allegorical battery.

Getting there is half the fun, and getting back is 100 percent of the misery. A week ago last Friday we went to Spain, and that part was fine. But last Saturday we woke at 5:45 AM, having gone to bed late after the usual shipboard revelries, and made our way to a bar to [...]

Here’s something you don’t wake up to every day:

A day in transit, endless, tiresome: LA limbo. Up in the early AM on the ship, with that sense of get-up-get-out that accompanies the end of every voyage. The day before you leave you start to leave already; what had become your home turns [...]

Yes, by Neptune, I am still on the sea. Although by the time you read this I will be home – just not able to update, because I will be in transit. Hah! Been in transit for a fortnight, the longest time away from hearth and kin for as long as I can recall. At [...]

Woke with a complete and understanding of the movie “Groundhog Day.” It was one of those days where Bill Murray has accepted his fate and decides this will be a fun day. Doesn’t matter what he does, after all.

But it was not exactly like all the other days, because – well, after lunch I [...]