Here’s a bit of received wisdom from the conservative side of the aisle, circa maybe 1985. These days, I keep hearing it from Undecideds and folks who explain away the Orange Menace’s garbage mouth: he’s a businessman, he’ll run the country...
It’ll never be easy to write a goodbye post to my sweet Raya kitty, but I think it’s time. Raya was The Best Kitty Ever. I told her so all the time. Other people probably think their cats are the best, and I sympathize with them, as they never had Raya....
Emotions shooting through the roof – I was heading back to Bogota. Or maybe I wasn’t. Prologue I arrived home from Mongolia after 30 hours of travel time, with about that long till my next flight. I slept, organized, and laundered, though it must be said...
For those of you (there must be thousands!) who read my first Mongolia post and only wanted more, here you have it! Bonus points if you thought to yourself, “Yes, Keri, natural beauty abounds in Mongolia, but what about food and culture?” Food I was...
I’m trying to remember it just as it happened. We had made 5 or 6 attempts to climb a curving, snow-covered hill, in Terelj National Park. Each try we got a little further. But when we stopped advancing, we had to turn around precariously and inch our way back down....
Napoli feels a little transgressive to me. First there’s the chaos. We went to Rome one weekend, and by way of explanation, it felt like having landed in Oslo or maybe Poughkeepsie. In Napoli you fight your way across the street against an onslaught of...
