A Writer’s Blog

  • Growing up with Oranges

    My child mind thought: okay, then I’ll knock oranges off the tree to the ground, pick them up and eat them, and I was never caught. Read more

  • The Malarkey Score for the 2nd Presidential Debate

    Who won the MALARKEY Contest for the Second Presidential Debate? Read more

  • Sexiest Woman Alive – Really?

    I often see women that beat Mila Kunis as the sexiest woman alive. Read more

  • Malarkey

    What it is that Ryan said during the only vice-presidential debate that was malarkey? Read more

  • Originally posted on iLook China: A Guest Post by Richard Burger of The Peking Duck One of the questions I hear the most is whether the Chinese people’s attitude toward sex is conservative or open-minded. And the answer is that it’s complicated. First, there is more than one China: there’s rich China and poor China, urban and… Read more

  • I love hiking. My biggest challenges (for hiking) have been the week long hikes in the High Sierras (including the back country of Yosemite) sometimes reaching higher than 11,000 feet near the John Muir Trail. Heavy backpacks weighing as much as sixty pounds are a burden when climbing for miles with thousands of feet of… Read more