My trip to a continent I've never been to before, South AMerica.

Finally ... after a horrendous last two weeks ... I'm leaving this evening for Buenos Aires

Thoughts on meditation and dealing with other people

Bureaucrats are an absolutely useless species.

Wow! Almost ready to go. A quick update.

Secrecy is a terrible blight on the modern world. I explore why. This is not the normal type of article I post, but sometimes I really want to vent about what I see every day.

So you've gotten a job in another country and you're settling in at the office. How about living your life? Lots of challenges there ...

There are significant advantages to being situationally aware. This article discusses that.

As a newly minted ex-pat, how do you actually go about things when you show up for work in a country you've never been in before.

Some notes on a short trip over Easter. Hong Kong - Bangkok - Pattaya and back. Nomad travel notes.

So ... you want to become an ex-pat?

Seems that I can't travel just to enjoy myself ... I need a reason. How about you?

In the continuing theme of education ... a little about life long learning

The dual shock of the American school system compounded by American culture.

My worldwide education - the pre-University years

My stay in Finland. Lots of pictures.

A brief sojourn in Estonia ... maybe I need to revisit in the summer

A brief tale of my trip to the Baltics. A brand new destination for me. Two new countries and a bit of cultural shock.

Sage words about how to present information to others

We have come together not because of blood, but because we share bonds of a common outlook on life, a customary way of treating people with respect, and mutual values that resound within all of us - something which unfortunately does not always seem to happen in families related solely by blood (at least in my observation)...