Here we are in Summer — my favorite season of the year. There’s nothing like long, hot summer days and nights spent by the lake or the...

It’s always better to run barefoot in the sand. Well, unless there are a lot of sharp shells lying around. Or poisonous snakes that have washed up during El Niño. Then it’s better to keep your shoes...

Seeing a young girl riding a green bicycle through the streets of Boston reminded me of an old and obscure Queen song called, Bicycle Race. The lyrics go like this: Bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride my bike I want to ride my bicycle I want to ride it...

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...