Time

WILMINGTON, Del. – Time is both relative and absolute. When my flight from Los Angeles landed in suburban Baltimore at 7:00 this morning, it was 4:00 a.m. in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It was also 5:00 a.m. in Whitefish, Montana; 6:00 a.m. at Wrigley Field in Chicago; and 12:00 p.m. at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground [...]

Here we go again

I’m back. Exactly nine hours from now, I’ll be on an Amtrak train headed for Chicago. For the second year in a row, I’m traveling across the country by rail, and this time I’m head to Seattle and Los Angeles after spending a few days in the Windy City. While I know where I’m headed, [...]

Gary Larson

DULLES, Va. – I was planning to write the last post on this blog before I left Oakland last night. I composed the whole thing and was about 30 seconds away from posting it when the flight crew said they had shut the door and all electronic devices needed to be turned off. I set [...]

In defense of the long form

I had the great pleasure of having a potluck picnic dinner over the weekend with a bunch of people I’d never met before. In fact, most of the people there only knew at most one or two other people out of the 10 of us. What brought us together was a shared interest in social [...]

The waiting game

One week from today, I’ll be setting off on a journey I’ve wanted to take for a very long time. I’ll be traveling across the country from Washington, D.C., to San Jose, Calif., by train, with a three-day stop in Chicago along the way. And in that peculiar way that only the Internet can foster, [...]