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The Mexican Wedding (Part I)

It may come as a surprise to my fellow upstate New Yorkers

The Long, Cramped, Wonderful Return to Nepal

I went back to Nepal a couple of weeks ago. And as always, I forgot how crazy far away that place is.

Look at a globe, you

Stepford Pooch

It

Catsitting 101

I have a complicated relationship with cats.

First, I

Housesitting 101

In every marriage there are differences between husband and wife, chronic differences in attitude that can lead to some contention. Liz and I are no different.

The fact is that Liz, since I have known her and long before that, feels something akin to physical pain when she believes she is putting somebody out, making them uncomfortable in some way.

I, on the other hand, have no problem at all with putting people out if I can somehow gain from it. Which may be how we ended up in a...

Doing Good, and Also Not So Much…

Walking through the shanty towns in the township of Grabouw for the first time a few weeks ago was like stepping through a TV screen and into a documentary. It was the kind of place I never thought I

The Road to the World Cup, Part Deux

Two weeks ago Kelly and I were driving up to our digs, a game lodge 25 minutes from the stadium where the US would play England in the opening match. The game lodge was called Bakubung, which translated as

The smooth, silky road to the World Cup

If you had never heard of the World Cup, you would still arrive in South Africa these days and know immediately that that something huge was going on.

Even a few weeks ago, before the World Cup officially began, you could see it in every city here. Stores that had no reason to have mannequins

On Volunteering

We

Into the Winelands

We are in South Africa. It feels like summer here but it