Feb 14, 2012
This was my very first trip to Pakistan. Kyna, my gorgeous darling sister, was already there, telling me it was all going to be great. She had already mastered driving around the city, meeting people, finding great places to eat, and enjoying the dramatic landscape....
Dec 3, 2011
This will be my longest blog yet – tons of fun with Kyle, Maureen, Lauren, Dad and the cats in Alaska for Thanksgiving. Kyle and Maureen live in a beautiful high-ceilinged house near Palmer and Wasilla, Alaska. Lauren spends her weekends there, often doing...
Dec 1, 2011
I finished my novel! I wrote over 50,000 words in the month of November, on a novel I haven’t named yet. It’s the second in a series – a fantastic spy novel. Here’s the (as yet unpublished) jacket blurb: The terrorists who blew up...
Dec 1, 2011
These are my flights so far this year, totalling 128,674 miles. The Internet is very cool! More soon from Alaska…
Nov 12, 2011
An absolutely alphabetic itinerary: Afghanistan to Zambia, to Zimbabwe, and back to Afghanistan. Can anyone else say they have gone from the front of the alphabet, to the back, and returned to the front? Ask the lady at the Executive Platinum Desk who made it possible...
Oct 8, 2011
A night in Dubai. I had a layover between Afghanistan and Zambia at DXB, and I had read that there were some FlyerTalkers celebrating a birthday there. I took a cab downtown and had dinner with them, and looking out over the balcony of the restaurant I could see the...