The Death of Queen Elizabeth the Great
As a practitioner of emergency management, I have developed an informal theory (that I would never dare publish in any professional journal) that every disaster or major world event is… Read More
Travel Tales
Top Tips for Tackling El Camino de Santiago, Part 1
Since you are reading this travel column, you doubtless have heard of El Camino de Santiago – the famous, UNESCO World Heritage pilgrimage path that runs for almost 500 miles… Read More
Texting and Virtual Travel to Save Democracy
Do you think our democracy is in danger? If so, do you want to do something to save it? I have found a way to travel virtually to key swing… Read More
Six Nix-Fix Ticks Sicks
Deer tick season is upon us, and Lyme disease and other tick-borne ailments are a serious health threat, with about one-tenth of Americans having been infected. Today I will give… Read More
Meltdown and Momentum at Madison’s Montpelier
After an epic struggle, equal representation on the Board of Directors has been achieved by descendants of the enslaved at President James Madison’s Montpelier plantation in central Virginia. This struggle… Read More
Who Sank the Moskva?
I predicted in this column back in mid-January, before the invasion of Ukraine, that Putin would invade and would focus on seizing the Black Sea coast, in order to strangle… Read More
Gotta Lemon? Rally LeMons!
Have a rusty “lemon” car in your back yard that barely runs? Love road adventures and general silliness? There’s a LeMons Rally in your future! This past month I hooked… Read More
Become a Digital Nomad!
Tired of that obnoxious boss? Sick of freezing winter? Peeved that your country and its pandemic has killed almost a million of its citizens, and is sliding from democracy into… Read More
The Fate of Ukraine
My best man at my wedding – a great guy and U.S. citizen – now lives in Ukraine with his Ukrainian wife and family. I want to travel there and… Read More
In the Right Wake of Ulysses?
As an economist I was trained to make gargantuan assumptions and then reason from them – reality be damned! So let’s make some: First, in 2022 Covid will be whipped,… Read More
The Search for the Missing Banqueting Hall of Queen Elizabeth I – Part 2
Recall from my column last month that in October 2021 I participated in an archaeological dig at Sudeley Castle in Gloucestershire, searching for the missing Banqueting Hall of Queen Elizabeth… Read More
The Search for the Missing Banqueting Hall and Tudor Garden of Queen Elizabeth I – Part 1
In the summer of 1592, Queen Elizabeth I and her very large retinue of courtiers arrived at Sudeley Castle, a magnificent structure in the Cotswolds, in Gloucestershire, southwest England. The… Read More