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Something New and Good : Easter and Earth Day

“Give me something I can touch.” It started in London ...

Something New and Good : Transition

Someone wise recently told me that I was in a ...

Fiesta Time!

Fiesta is here! Never mind that downtown is about to ...

Something New and Good : Requiem

 My sister and her husband were living in my grandparents’ ...

Explorer’s challenge: Five climate zones in 15 days

I pride myself on being a good packer. Or at ...

Nature’s Hallelujah: The Galápagos

As our panga neared a formation called “The Cathedral” at ...

The Curious Urbanite Learns about School Choice

There’s a new pro-choice movement in town. Instead of clinics ...

The Curious Urbanite Learns about Water

From first through seventh grade I attended New Braunfels public ...

Why I love the Animated Shorts

I have always loved the Oscars. For years I hosted ...

The Curious Urbanite learns about Transportation

No one, on the morning after economic collapse, breaking scandal, ...

Protecting TED from the HMS Inspire

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was ...

29

My birthday, sadly, comes but once per year on January ...

1,380 Miles, some desert running, and a puppy

As I write this, I am sitting on the dog ...

How to live a life worthy of teenage cult cable

Hey there, girls! So, you want to live the glamorous ...

New Year Holiday in Not-Brazil

I didn’t do a lot of reflecting on the turn ...

So this is Christmas…

Christmas came without fanfare this year. Partly because I’ve been ...