Letter from The Beach
Some still advertise the beach as the place to "get it away from it all." It is to laugh. Certainly, it's a time I look forward to each summer. But…
The Veep of My Street
For the annual Hobart Street Porch Fest this weekend in D.C., I did some research on the guy for whom the block was named nearly 100 years ago and found…
Seeing ‘Nebraska’ in Nebraska
I got to see "Nebraska" over the weekend in the Omaha theater that director Alexander Payne helped establish. He wasn't there, though he was part of a couple of events…
Muggers Stole My Radio Show
I have a perfectly good reason I didn't make it to the station tonight for my Friday night show on Radio CPR. I got mugged on the way there. I…
Report from The Beach
The weather has been odd this summer on the Outer Banks. In a season when heat and humidity doesn't quite describe the intensity of summer in Washington D.C. (where the…
Travel Journal: Marketing the Sunset
Just over a week ago, a big full moon traveling a few thousand miles closer than usual made a big worldwide impression, especially from photographers with long lenses that made…
Turkey Update: Safe in the Caves
For any of those who may concerned about our time in Istanbul during its unrest, first reported here and now migrated to the Washington Post, I'm happy to say we've…
Our Trip to Istanbul So Far
The way it had had been reported on TV, you'd think the tear gas would be evident from the moment we stepped off the plane in Istanbul. But things seemed…
Life During Wartime: A Report from the Interrupted Boston Marathon
The explosions sounded ominous. From mile marker 25.5, it could have been a confetti cannon going off at the finish line. Except that the leaders finished hours ago and there…