It can be a good thing to start the day with a plan, have it vanquished by poor timing, and have to start over. My landlady for the week...

I fly home in 60 days, my ticket from Tokyo recently purchased. The days will pass quickly and already I feel the faint pangs of loss....

Easter in Hong Kong. An oxymoron if there ever was one. The “special administrative region of China,” with nearly 8 million residents,...

I didn’t grow up going to museums, certainly not art museums. I think my first visit was an 8th grade field trip to the Iowa Historical...

I don’t recall when it first occurred to me. Or when I became certain there was no other way out. But for a long time I’ve been...

Pa checked in. I had a feeling he would. He’d never admit it, but he doesn’t like being left out any more than the rest of us. In some...