Today, a coworker asked me in a slightly accusatory tone why I didn’t have a smart phone. My reply was simply, “Because I refuse to get one.” She noted that it makes certain things, like inviting me to lunch, more…
This is the latest installment of my on-going narrative of my experience with Couchsurfing. The full story can be found here. Say what you will about Milwaukee in winter, but in summer, the city truly comes alive. Well, it comes…
After nearly two years in Korea, and another one yet planned, the reader might assume that I generally like this quirky little country of 50 million people, perched precariously on the edge of Asia. The reader would be quite right…
This is a follow-up to two posts that I completed in January 2012 on my Atheism. Within a few days of releasing my post first post on Atheism: “Atheist Me: Coming to the Conclusion,” I received the following facebook message from…
This is the latest installment of my on-going narrative of my experience with Couchsurfing. The full story can be found here. The other day, while talking to my mom, she posed the following question, “How difficult was it to get…
The 16-hour train ride to New Jalpaiguri and the subsequent 3-hour jeep ride to Darjeeling gave us time to chill out from a stressful last day in Varanasi. The noisy, hot, packed train (at one point there were 18 people…