The scenery makes an impressive about-face a little over an hour after I hop into the van at my hotel in the heart of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Rather than sipping minty mojitos at the Marriott’s beach bar in the city’s chic, waterfront Condado neighborhood, I find myself clad in a helmet, harness and lifejacket, [...]

That those of us wealthy enough to travel for fun find some form of self-enlightenment from exploring the poorest parts of the world is hardly a new phenomenon. Innumerable college backpackers find revelations in their wanderings through developing nations. And for years South Africa’s Soweto Township and the urchin-filled streets of Rio have drawn tourists [...]

It takes mere seconds of web surfing to realize I’m far from the only one to take offense at the rebranding of “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher as some sort of war correspondent, currently making his way through the Holy Land with the sort of ignorance that would fit perfectly into the classic wit of The [...]

One pleasant by-product of my past few weeks of unemployment has been a resurgence of motivation to write…gasp!…for pleasure. Not to mention an increase in general creativity, whether it be in the kitchen, on the page or in the sketchbook.

I had taken the day off, but when the email came through on my phone alerting me to an “important meeting” the following day, I knew the dread I felt was shared by my coworkers back at the office. We had all watched the media landscape over the past couple months and seen magazines bigger [...]

I’m not much for unbridled product endorsement, but a recent addition to my productivity suite has provided me such pleasure that I feel inclined to make mention of it. Evernote goes beyond simple list making, though it performs that task quite well, offering easy note taking via text, email, voice record and camera phone. It [...]

Well, many long days of deciphering code later and I’ve created my online magazine-format portfolio site. And if I do say so myself, it looks pretty good. Please take a look around, post comments or send me an email, and definitely check back because the content will change often.