No, seriously. The topic of this post is vegetables ( Read more... )

Because sometimes the best advice is the kind you *don't* follow

http://travelswithpain.com/2011/11/26/100-ways-to-screw-up-when-traveling-with-pain-part-1/

I have a guest blogger on Travels With Pain ( Read more... )

Traveling with pain is scary. No doubt about it ( Read more... )

So one of the sponsor/exhibitors atBlogHer 2011 was Lee Jeans. I went up to their reps on the expo floor and asked the Big Question ( Read more... )

 
It's not quite my usual how-to post, but I've written a 4-part journal of a solo trip I took last week.

Traveling Alone, Part 1

To get to parts 2-4, click the link to the title of the next part at the upper right corner above the title and text of the post.

I'd love comments on this series. Is it a good read? Do you think it will help *you* travel ( Read more... )

I've been traveling alone a lot this year. This is more a philosophy post than a how-to:

Traveling Solo: Advanced Studies in Traveling With Pain

What do you all think? Do you travel alone, and if so do how to you make it work?

This is a friend of a friend of a friend sort of thing. I'm planning to donate books to the fundraising auction.

Unfortunately, it's all too common for abuse victims to be hosed by the system that's supposed to protect them. And for a woman without independent means to pay for a shark lawyer to protect her interests--forget about it. My hope in ( Read more... )

 
This one may spark a few comments. Unlike most travel writers, I'm not a Theroux fan. At all.

I stand by my words. Don't travel to observe. Travel to live. And know that fun isn't something to be mocked or denigrated--we who live with chronic incurable illness know better than anyone that fun is a noble goal in and of itself.

 
As requested, I've put together a whole bunch of travel tips specific for business travelers. I managed to think of so many that I had to split them into two posts.

I need to think some about other ways to ensure that my condition stays private. Do you guys have any suggestions? If so, please post them either here or up on the blog so other folks ( Read more... )