Despite this being Boston’s second least snowiest year on record, Inna and I had planned a week at a resort between Cancún and Playa del Carmen.

This was my first trip to Mexico, and it was perfectly timed. Two weeks before we left, the State Department issued a major travel advisorywhich greatly expanded an earlier warning about travel in Mexico ( Read more... )

For the past seven weeks I’ve been attending adult ed classes in Thai at BCAE, mostly to see if I could build up enough of a knowledge of the ( Read more... )

What was/is your favorite subject in school? Why? In high school, I loved Diplomatic History with Mr. Bartholomew. He ( Read more... )