OMG it's today. Here's what I'm doing, thinking and feeling.

I’ve been thinking about how to write this for a while. Solitary souls are often described in the negative: The social situations and...

Yosemite's reputation for crowds and traffic  kept me away for the first six years I lived in the Bay Area. I saw my chance during the...

I cried in my Beijing hotel room  on one of the early days of the trip.  An accumulation of stressors contributed to the breakdown:...