Pride and Prejudice come to life

After a bitter, hard-bitten fight with a piece of new technology (I thought it was too good for a free Zune to seemingly fall in my lap) I tuned into the internets to realize that I had yet to update this blog today!  Woe is me. Things in Seattle have been...

More adventures in travelling

I had been backpacking through Europe with my friends for a month and a bit and I was supposed to meet up with my family in Dublin. None of us had phones that worked abroad, so the only point of contact was this hotel I was supposed to meet them at in Temple Bar. So I...

Smile or Die

Longer update is on its way for later today (it was incredibly sunny this weekend, sorry all!) but here’s an interesting view about the darker side of positive thinking:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5um8QWWRvo

Memories from traveling

I was asked to share one of my most”entertaining” memories from traveling, the idea being that the more trouble something is at the time the better story it makes later.  Well, I don’t know how much of what I remember here is what actually...

What season is this? Thoughts from a coffee shop window.

I haven’t had time to adjust to the currents here, the motion that comes before the changing of the seasons, those scents and smells that usher in the parts of the year. It makes me lost. At home, those currents are burned into my brain. There is a smell that...