I have never encountered squeaky sand before today. Never even heard of it. The New England sand on the beaches that I’m accustomed to is brown and sharp. Walk across it for a couple of hours and it begins to feels like broken glass. Strolling on the powdered sugar sand in other parts of the [...]

Since travelling to Australia a few days ago and planting myself in New South Wales, I’ve quickly come to notice that this country is full of nature that I am not going to waste. Getting outside in Australia is synonymous with living Down Under, I think. Unexpectedly, my first day of exploring the outdoors in [...]

As I prepare to move to Australia in a week, the weather where I live in New England has been so bizarrely hot for the past two months that the summer temperatures here at home and the winter across the earth where I am headed are playing a large role in my thoughts. Here’s how [...]

As I spend literally the bulk of each day now preparing for my upcoming move overseas, I’ve been thinking a lot about the journey itself – the lengthy flight, the jet lag, the five hours I’ll be hanging out at LAX. The act of travel itself is not exactly a blast – for me anyway. [...]

Every year for many years I’ve blasted down Highway I-95 in Connecticut, frequently passing by a little sign near Exit 56 which states, quietly and simply, Thimble Islands. What are these “thimble islands” I would wonder, as the sign blurred by and the years moved on. I had heard on the street that these little [...]

I really don’t like traveling. As I think about the 8,092,480-hour plane ride I’ll be enduring on my way to Australia at the end of this month, I find myself wincing and wanting only to arrive. I wish I could just drag my bed and my blankie on board and sleep tight through it all. [...]

At the end of this month, I am moving out of the country. Where precisely I will end up, I don’t know. I’ve always wanted to live overseas and, when I came back from my last Middle East trip, decided the time is now. I’ve rented my home on a two-year lease and soon will [...]

Summer has settled into New England, coating us with blankets of wet, sticky air and temperatures that cause people to complain it’s too hot. Not me – I love it. Typically summertime weather here hits in July. To southern New England’s delight this year, though, summer began two months early, in May. Party on. To [...]