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The Journey A challenge for a traveler whose trips are necessarily short (I am needed at home! I miss my fam! I miss Ed!) is to do more tha...

I knew even last winter that I would want to return to the Alps this year. When I was way younger but already on my own, I loved scheming an...

I am that -- a happy Valentine. A person who was programmed, probably from birth, to fight hard to ignore the irritants in life and focus on...

The luster and radiance of the light in the past week has not gone by unnoticed by any of us living here, in the upper Midwest. This kind of...

Abundant sunshine, warm temps. No trace of snow in Chicago. Weird February! But, it makes for a very very peasant walk from the hotel back t...

After several false starts last weekend, I finally made it to Chicago today!  Stand back, cheepers, cats, hurry down for breakfast, Ed, I ne...