It was one o’clock in the morning eastern time on August 18, 2001 and I was on an airplane somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. The sun was rising above the clouds beyond my window while the stranger beside me snored loud enough to wake up [Read more…]

I love to travel but find that my constraints (job+empty bank account) often leave me unable to get away as often as I’d like. As a writer, I especially enjoy visiting new places with new cultures and new vistas ripe with inspiration. So naturally, when [Read more…]

I stood motionless in the conference room watching the final launch of the space shuttle program and all I could think was… …we built that. We, as a collective group of people, put our most brilliant minds in a room and together we envisioned, planned [Read more…]

Not so long ago I was the girl who emphatically said, “I will never own an iPhone! Who would want their phone, iPod and camera wrapped into one device? Then if something happens to it you’re totally screwed!” So long good friend. Flash forward to [Read more…]