I hadn’t heard such a silence as far back as I could remember, so thunderous that the pressure of it weighed upon my ears with the same tonnage as I imagine a scuba diver must feel diving at the bottom of a deep dark sea. It hurt my head. Three of us sat alone in […]
The photo that makes the cover of a guidebook serves two purposes: to visually represent the soul of a region, and to sell a place as a traveling destination. The image sits next to countless others on a shelf attempting to stand out, all for the sake of inspiring window shoppers to plan their next […]
One day on safari is better than 10 birthdays anywhere else. Imagine, instead of waking to an alarm clock being greeted by a ‘safari massage’ — the rumbling of bumpy roads untamed, even by the best ATV shock-absorbers. Imagine that instead of splashing cold water on your face in your own bathroom, your face being cleansed by […]
It turns out that opting to use a stand up desk at a government office can create a stir. But why? Thomas Jefferson stood at his “tall desk” while conceiving architectural blueprints for buildings such as the Virginia State Capitol. Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck used one, as did statesman Winston Churchill, as does Donald Rumsfeld. […]
The most well known adaptation of Chief Seattle’s letter to President Franklin Pierce was written by a screenwriter from Texas named Ted Perry in 1970. This adaptation has been long been believed to be the original letter that Chief Seattle sent to President Franklin Pierce in 1854. The first translated version of Chief Seattle’s […]
In 1925, a deadly outbreak of diphtheria threatened illness upon the people of a small town in northern Alaska. The anecdote needed to combat the illness lived more than 2 thousand miles away, at a lab in Seattle, Washington. U.S. officials knew that they needed to act fast and smart to save the people of […]
When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. – William Shakespeare …………. When I signed the form and sealed the envelope that would confirm my spot on a […]
The European horse meat scandal – and America’s complicated legal policy. As the controversy over unlabeled horse meat reaching grocery stores and restaurants in Europe widens, let’s explore how the scandal has unfolded and why it’s so hard to find horse on a menu in the United States. Image compliments of Top Masters in Public […]
It wasn’t until my visit to the Olduvai Gorge in the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania that I fully understood where humans really came from and began to contemplate the two remaining questions in the famous three-part phrase: “Who are we? Where did we come from? And where are we going?” We are ‘the wise […]
World on a Fork 