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Start spreading the news…the Yankees win the 2009 World Series! Here’s how they got to number 27:
(Above photo © Nick Laham/Getty Images on Detroit News website)
Every 2009 Yankees Walk-Off Win

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Tell me these aren’t the coolest blocks ever! I just saw these Mad Scientist blocks today on Etsy. There are a lot of cool, wooden, alphabet blocks out there. But these are special. Here’s what each letter and accompanying picture stand for:
A – Appendages
B – Bioengineering
C – Caffeine
D – Dirigible
E – Experiment
F – Freeze ray
G [...]

I live in a half crunchy/half alpha-mom neighborhood, and I love it. Typical topics on the community listserve are “home birthing options,” playgroups, yoga classes, vaccine debates, and baby clothing swaps. I really don’t pay much attention to most of the discussions, except for maybe the free/heavily discounted stuff. But I have been a bit [...]

There was a debate about travel writing ethics today on Twitter (#twethics), which started with a story on Gawker called “New York Times Travel Writer Broke These Travel Writer Rules With Junket.” Gawker ran the above photo of Mike Albo, said travel writer who was accused of engaging in a “swag orgy” because he accepted [...]

A review of Phanfare, a photosharing and archiving site, by a blogging, stay-at-home-mother-of-2, freelance travel and food writer. Get the first year of Phanfare for $27.47.

I’m getting ready to settle down in the DC area again after a long while of living overseas. So, I’m getting things in order. One of the first things I did upon coming back to the States was get a new cell phone. I’m loving my new iPhone (a topic for another post) and my [...]

…I want to do something like this. Yeah, this video has been all over the Internet and on TV by now. But I just watched the whole thing and it brought me to (happy) tears – much more than the traditional Wedding March ever has. Super cool. Congrats, Jill and Kevin from me and the [...]

I can’t believe it’s been more than one whole year since I wrote a post for this blog. The main reason was because I kept having this technical glitch with wordpress, my blogging software. That all seems to be solved, thanks to a solution from tech blogger Dave Risley. I owe him.
Of course, it hasn’t [...]

Paul Theroux may be a curmudgeon, but he’s a damn good travel writer (if that’s what you must call him). This piece in the Guardian about how and why Theroux became a travel writer comes a few days shy of the release of his books The Great Railway Bazaar and The Old Patagonian Express as [...]

Dear friends,
I must apologize for the long delay in writing. But, I have been up to big things. First of all, I have been concentrating on my writing and my other blog Italofile.com. I am using Italofile as a way to explore the Italy travel landscape beyond the pages of my books The Unofficial Guide [...]