Archive | October, 2013
Recoletta Cemetery, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lightning Strikes (Near) a Telecommuter in Buenos Aires

It was halfway into the middle of a night that I awoke with my answer: “Buenos Aires.” I had been contemplating for some time where I would go on my first solo voyage. Fortunate to have a telecommuting professional lifestyle, I had the enviable position of being able to say “I can work from anywhere […]

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Ornamental Russia: St. Petersburg — Image Gallery

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The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow

The Bolshoi… Opera?

There is only one Bolshoi.  Last spring, to finish that sentence, I would have said “there is only one Bolshoi Ballet.” But, when I got to the famed theater in Moscow I was schooled. It is actually called, “the Bolshoi Theater.”  This matters to me simply because I had intended to go to the imperial palace to […]

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Grand Staircase, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., U.S.A, from Robert N. Dennis (Image credit: Library of Congress)

The Image Collection Owned by the American People

One of the enchanting qualities of libraries is that they offer endless hours of free entertainment and an enormous return on that investment of time. ROI: knowledge. The United States Library of Congress, one of the largest libraries in the world, is dedicated to furthering the knowledge of the American people. It was built in […]

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