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It’s always odd to be watching a commercial, walking through the mall, or grabbing a glance at a random library book and then notice, “Hey, I’m the target audience for that!” Since it’s marketing, you know it didn’t happen by accident. So it was that I got sucked into checking out Magic Bus: On the [...]

New pictures of Orlando HERE.

What to say after my return from the family’s first pilgrimage to Orlando? I want to rip on Mickey Mouse—to be the hypercritical parent who refuses to allow his kids to choose Toy Story as the theme for a birthday party—but I don’t have it in me. Disney is what it is, both the theme [...]

Ever take a picture that’s so typical, traditional , and touristy that it probably bores everyone else yet continuously stuns you? I took a lot of those in Turkey. After spending a week in somebody else’s country, I’d like to write a post on the people I met, with some in-depth sociological comments about how [...]

Thinking about packing for travel got me working through what won’t bring, primarily technology. I’m typing this entry on my new toy–an Asus EEE 901, an 8.9 netbook with wireless and bluetooth and all kinds of new tech features. It’s so small that I could easily fit it in my backpack. Almost every large hostel [...]

Now that it’s only about ten days until I leave for Turkey I can start to plan and get excited and even semi-pack without appearing obsessive. (Or perhaps I’m only telling myself that, like the guy who goes thirty minutes without a smoke or ten minutes without washing his hands and congratulates himself).
Deciding what to [...]

Trying to do a little updating of my web page. Today’s project included pictures from a trip to Chile in 2004. They’re here.

Yesterday’s post reminded me of the assignment I’m starting with my students tomorrow. The prewriting begins with students creating sixteen top-ten lists. I often try to complete the same assignments as my students–at least if they’re fun–so here are some of the lists I have been crafting:
Cities I Most Want to Visit = St. Petersburg, [...]

I’ve had to cancel a few trips over the past few years, for various reasons: California–too hard to make plans with friends; Sicily–they changed my flight by twelve hours; Mexico City–I didn’t want to leave for the airport in the middle of Sam’s birthday party. Sometimes it worked out great, like exchanging Sicily for Poland, [...]

In my continuing fascination with public transportation, I couldn’t wait to try out the Megebus with Sam last weekend. (Yes, public transportation attachment is perhaps a distinctly American interest, since in any other country public transportation is a way of life and not a novelty. This explains the bored looks from 9-to-5ers that contrast with [...]