Remember that time that my eye exploded? I had to fly home from Toronto and have surgery and I spent a week lying on my stomach, unable to move my head. I couldn't fly for three months, which was exceptionally inconvenient because I travel internationally for a living. My pupil wouldn't close for six months. My eye was red and gross and I developed ( Read more... )

If anyone had thought to ask me two weeks ago, I would have told them that the saddest words in the English language are "empty hotel room." I enjoy being Carmen San Diego--the corporate overlords who sent me out to Washington DC to give a talk at a think tank were pleased enough that they would like me to put on a repeat performance in January-- ( Read more... )