TRAVEL THE WORLD (WHILE STAYING AT HOME) BLOG

As the fourth largest country in the world by population, it’s amazing how little I knew about Indonesia before this week. I’ve had a fun...

I love the learning I experience when someone questions what I think I know. On our recent long drive to NorCal, Kaitlin’s friend Human...

I’m going to start with the literature because that’s what I do, but please hang in there for the crazy dune buggies, the hysterical...

I cannot express how much I like Hungarian food. When someone from one of my several cooking groups asks, “Have you done Hungarian yet?”...

Some infamous Americans have visited Honduras: banana growers, apocalypticists, and treasure hunters. But let’s start with a couple of...

Who is allowed to have a revolution? Who is allowed to have peace and prosperity? And why do my first thoughts about Haiti go to these...

In this normally highly mobile world, my travels to Guyana while staying at home have introduced me to many Guyanese outside their...

In the quote from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do ___ ____ ...

Combine Lord of the Rings with Black Panther and you still wouldn’t have all the amazing things that are in The Guardian of the Word by...

Kristen wrote about the Maya for her seventh-grade history project. To give her report some context, I was delighted to find Casa Maya in...

I traveled to Grenada while staying at home with Morgan Freeman, cooking my way north to south down the archipelago through seventeen...

My sweet mother-in-law Mary, raised as a traditional Seventh-day Adventist, had never been to a movie theater when My Big Fat Greek...

I was thrilled to secure four tickets for Gladys, Phyllis, Joanie, and me for “An Evening with Ayesha H. Attah,” a Ghanaian author, in a...

Oktoberfest with Vonnett (my friend since fourth grade) and her husband Kevin (my friend since college) is one of my favorite ways to...

Georgian women are the subject of an epic novel, a bildungsroman film, an ancient Greek play, a television series, and even an opera! I...

In January 1977, my mom broke all her TV rules – no violence, nothing after 9 pm, no more than two hours a week – and we all watched...

Every week John gathers a group of physicians, researchers, scientists, ethicists, pastors, professors, and others with similar...

My French professor suggested I spend a summer in France through the international study program of my Napa Valley college. My father...

My bonus daughter, Andrea, has Finnish ancestry. I had big plans for fun things we could do in California to represent Finland. We could...

Here in California, if you want to visit Fiji, go to Sacramento. That doesn’t mean my February 2020 trip to Fiji in Sacramento was easy....