I got tagged by S @ 52 Faces with this whack internet meme.  Here it goes: 1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket 2. Your significant other? Spidermonkey 3. Your hair? black 4. Your mother? same 5. Your father? same 6. Your favorite thing? Exploration 7. Your dream last night? Gorillas 8 Your favorite drink? [...]

The Wine Trials is an upcoming book that describes of a series of blind tastings that I took part in last year. The tastings were great fun. We were encouraged to come up with creative, uncensored descriptions of wines. I thought one of the wines tasted like cat pee. The book recommends 100 wines under [...]

What do you think? Burma, China, North Korea – should travelers visit oppressive countries with bad human rights records?  I read this article this morning while I was waiting at the dentist’s office. In her April 2008 article, “See Mo’ Evil,” Outside senior editor Stephanie Pearson rebuts Nobel Prize Winner Aung San Suu Kyi’s call [...]

Today I tried out to be a teacher for an SAT prep company called Revolution Prep. There were about 13 of us at the audition. We had to teach a short, non-SAT-related lesson on the topic of our choice as a demonstration of our classroom teaching potential. I did an interactive lesson on how to [...]