I’ve been everywhere, man
2015 has been My Year of U.S. Travel. We didn’t travel too far or too often growing up, and once I was in college and discovered the allure of Europe (and tricks to finding strangely cheap flights, RIP Northwest Airlines), I would hop the pond whenever I had a break and a bit of cash […]

Game planning (Thanksgiving edition)
This morning, my Facebook feed blew up with talk of “the big game,” the annual Montana-Montana State football game (which is, somewhat foolishly to my way of thinking, called “The Brawl of the Wild”). While alums of both schools taunted one another, I was doing my own kind of game planning: the kind that involves […]
Thinking about thankfulness
For the past 24 days, I’ve managed to post something every day – something I read, something I saw and liked, something that got me thinking. Something. It hasn’t always been easy; I abandoned my calendar with ideas somewhere along the way. But today, when the theme seems so obvious, is probably one of the […]

T-giving countdown: movie time
Somehow, we’re one week from Thanksgiving. Isn’t time just so weird and irregular-seeming? I’m still coming to grips with the fact that we’re in November, and now the holiday season is just around the corner. To get in the mood (and because I stayed home sick from work today), I kicked things off with the […]