Mea Culpa 10-21-22 I’ve done something stupid. I know it was stupid not only because people are telling me so but also because it kept me...

10.17.22 There’s this huge buzz in the indie publishing world about the power of Kickstarter. Most of us authors had no idea what...

10.9.22 This is why aging is so great: you learn how to avoid SITUATIONS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL AWKWARD. Seriously. I don’t go on job...

Go Delta. They have got it going ON over American Airlines. Monday, 9.5.22 9:10am Well, the Delta business class seats makes American...

Sunday, 9.4.22 (writing this on Monday) The dreaded Travel Day. I shudder to think. (And double-shudders because this travel day will...

Saturday, 9.3.22 The word goes out; the whisper spreads. Three-G! I’ve got a three-G signal! Me, too! Texts! Emails! We’re all looking...

Friday, 2.9.22 Kind of an incredible day…and yet RIGHT NOW I’m trying to figure out why others have three bars on their phones and I have...

Thursday, 9.1.22, 8:45pm The fruit demonstration was both wonderful and also a very good reminder that we must all sleep when we can....

Thursday, 9.1.22 10:30am It’s important, I find, to surrender any illusion that I can be physically attractive while traveling; I simply...

Wednesday, 8.31.22, 9pm The day was long. I mean like tormentfully long. By the end (after the bus ride through crowded Cuzco to the...

Cuzco—8/30/22 @ 7:30pm If you spend the day doing something rhythmic (riding a horse, sailing a boat, there are probably other examples)...

Back in Cuzco. I thought I'd adapted to the high altitude. I was WRONG! Rusty is taking the afternoon to sleep and rest. I'm...

Monday, 8.29 3pm Photo by Twig! To get to Macchu Picchu, you have two options. You can go the Inca way (by foot) or you can take a bus,...

Pueblo Machu Picchu is far enough over the Andes to be in a cloud rainforest--the far extreme end of the Amazon basin. My phone tells me...

Sunday, 8/28 Sixteen days after midnight (really 7:30 pm) ALTITUDE IS KICKING MY ASS. So THIS is what they were talking about. My...

Saturday, 827 3:15pm What’s the deal with dogs in Lima? I haven’t found anyone to ask yet, but I will. People have dogs here; I’ve seen...

Friday 8/26 5:30pm The thing about currency in a foreign land is: IT’S NOT MONOPOLY MONEY. I have this powerful urge to pull out the...

Friday, August 26 Lima (Miraflores) 7:50 in the morning The Incas were an astonishing empire—the most astonishing empire you’ve sort of...

August 25, 2022 Miraflores, Lima (Peru) 8:30 pm Midway through the flight, everybody suddenly got very sleepy and ALL the window shades...

Thursday, August 25, 2022 En route to Lima I had a vicious and entirely unjustifiable reaction when the pilot announced that we’d be...