No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific..

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills..

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings..

I was simply restless, quite likely because of a dissatisfaction with the recent trajectory of my life, and if there is a better, more compelling rea….

Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on throug….

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise..

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and….

Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in th….

I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to….

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general….