This is a project on Kickstarter, which I thought was so neat I had to share it. So much of the news we see is at the macro level; I love the idea of exploring the world one person and one conversation at a time. Check it out here.

"It’s been four years since Paul Salopek, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, set out on foot from a campsite in ( Read more... )

In case you've been wondering where I was, Mr Psmith and I just got back from ten days vacation in Maine (without internet, which made it a real true vacation, although he cheated a bit because he has a smartphone, the tricksy creature). Am sunburned and so full of seafood I think I'm starting to sprout gills. Will share details and picspam ( Read more... )

Yesterday, while wandering the wilds of the Interwebz, I stumbled across this wonderful piece by Gerald Gould. Like Magee's High Flight or Masefield's Sea Fever, the words and the rhythm inspire a kind of pleasant restlessness. (All three poems also prompt a tear in the eye and a tightness in the throat, I've never been able to pin down why; ( Read more... )