While there is still time

When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days ...

Another Dave Barry classic :) "Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of t...

From Dave Barry Talks Back , the best I have read so far. "….So I was getting on a plane in Seattle, and I was feeling a touch nervous ...

in time of daffodils(who know the goal of living is to grow) forgetting why, remember how in time of lilacs who proclaim the aim of waking i...

A Personal Reconnaissance by Tensin Tsundue From Ladakh Tibet is just a gaze away. They said: from that black knoll at Dumtse it's Tibet...

On the back-breaking, nerve-wracking 2 day journey in a mini-bus from Manali to Leh in Ladakh (in the Himalaya mountains, on the border wi...

Easter lunch at the the F… family reunion, on the beautiful island of Ile d’Orléans, Québec (April 2006). You are the only foreigner in th...

On that hot summer day in Strasbourg (Aug 1997), you are unable to walk anymore with the group, your asthma is acting up. Pollution levels a...

"Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things." Saki

The nine sets of nine days of the Mongolian winter: http://fellowsblog.kiva.org/2011/01/20/nine-sets-of-nine-days-of-mongolian-winter / - it...

In the end, happiness is only perceived and acknowledged in certain moments. And poetry freezes moments like nothing else can. A Blessi...

Stories. In the gaps in the travels too. But then, isn't everything a story to you? Narrated to yourself, for the most part, but a story...

http://voyages.liberation.fr/voir-et-lire/l-asie-en-notes-et-en-motocyclette «Vingt-deux ans d’Asie, en chemin de fer, en chars à buffles, c...

"He would most likely not have embarked on that year-long enterprise had he not had profound assurance that return was possible, even...

Read ' The Thing Around Your Neck ', a collection of short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Nigerian writer, who is right no...