I'm often asked what my job at Writer's Digest encompasses, or what my typical day is like. My official title

Upon arrival at the Irish farm in Kilgarvan, a bottle of homemade bog myrtle beer was waiting in the kitchen,

[Click here for full-size image.] On the last page of my 2009 Museum of Lost Wonder calendar, I found the

From the New Yorker article on Amelia Earhart by Judith Thurman (September 14, 2009) [From Earhart's letter to her husband

I returned home Monday night from a 3-week holiday in Ireland. (Read previous entries on this trip here and here.)

Snippets from "The Life and Essays of Michel de Montaigne" by Jane Kramer, in the September 7, 2009, issue of

Snippets from The Art of Possibility by Benjamin & Rosamund Zander.(See a really cool TED talk by Benjamin Zander.) It's

1. Arrive at cottage late at night. The only heat source is the small stove in the living room. Unable

From "Slang-Whanger" by Arthur Krystal in New Yorker (May 18, 2009) We don't for a moment believe that Hazlitt is

I wasn't expecting trouble when I passed through immigration at the Dublin airport. I'm American, I'm privileged, and I look

On December 16, I left the United States for a 2-week vacation in Ireland. A key objective while I'm here