I’m an avid reader and walker, a poet and wannabe adult (when I have to be). I retired early from the medical industry to ...

Versatile Travel Pillow. I’ve tried my share of airplane pillows over the years and most often have just carried a camping pillow half-inflated because that can also double as a ...

Free Press: Underground & Alternative Publications 1965-1975 by Jean-François Bizot (editor) Universe 2006, 264 pages, 9 x ...

You should visit China. It’s vast, very diverse, safe, easy to get around, inexpensive, interesting, not what you expect, and ...

Memento Mori coin. I got this from the Daily Stoic (ran by Ryan Holliday) and it’s a beautiful and small (easy to carry in ...

Softening demand from a weakening economy, increased seat capacity, and plummeting visits from abroad have led to cheaper flights from or around the USA during the holidays. Prices are lower than they ...

Can you imagine how awesome it would have been to be an entrepreneur in 1985 when almost any dot com name you wanted was available? All words; short ones, cool ones. All you had to do was ask for the ...

A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. All reviews on this site are written by readers who have actually used the tool and ...

Several years ago on my 68th birthday I wrote up 68 bits of advice for my adult children, and posted them here. The bits were extremely popular, and they were widely shared by others. I was encouraged ...

I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years, and I’ve learned a lot. I’ve traveled solo, and I’ve led a tour group of 40 friends. I’ve slept in dormitories and I’ve stayed in presidential ...

I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have ...

You live in the big here. Wherever you live, your tiny spot is deeply intertwined within a larger place, imbedded fractal-like into a whole system called a watershed, which is itself integrated with ...