End of summer travels

After a blistering period of work through spring and summer, I began to make plans to take some time off. I was still in Kabul, finishing up a final project report there and also...

Kabul Confidential

Oh, yeah, right, like I have anything interesting to report from Kabul. If I want to be important, daring, bold, or devil-may-care, everyone else here has long since beaten me to it. There’s an...

Be my Pakistani Valentine

Kyna and I in our shalwar kameezes. She introduced me to her many adoring friends in Islamabad. Gul Nawaz, the guard is at the right – he’s great, funny, and misses 85% of what...

Thanksgiving family edition

This will be my longest blog yet – tons of fun with Kyle, Maureen, Lauren, Dad and the cats in Alaska for Thanksgiving. Kyle and Maureen live in a beautiful high-ceilinged house near Palmer...

NaNoWriMo – Second novel in the Spy Act series

I finished my novel!   I wrote over 50,000 words in the month of November, on a novel I haven’t named yet. It’s the second in a series – a fantastic spy novel. Here’s...

The Great Circle Map

These are my flights so far this year, totalling 128,674 miles. The Internet is very cool!   More soon from Alaska…