How great would it be to spend the rest of your life on this beach? The inspiration is an actual beach near Phuket,...

We’re in the middle of Pride Festivities in London. Here’s my...

I was enjoying a cup of coffee while sitting at a table on the sidewalk outside my local Starbucks and feeling inspired. Mind wandering to a conversation that I had with a friend the other day about the events leading up to the first World War. Very few people remember that it was a complicated set of political issues and alliances that caused the...

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Summer is still weeks away, but already one can anticipate its arrival. Hot sun on warm skin. Beads of sweat form. I like what F. Scott Fitzgerald said about Summer: And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with...

I was at the gym today doing a regular workout. I pushed it too hard and was exhausted by the end of it. I got injured — pulled a hamstring. My top lesson learned: don’t go to the gym. Especially on Friday the 13th. It sucks. So I did yoga instead. Keeping a yoga practice may be an effective method stay, to reduce stress...

Stand Up Paddle Boarding (oil painting).

Lying on a beach as the tide rolls out.