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Nov.21.2012 Floral Trophies November 21 FLORAL TROPHIES Captured pet plants grow in my window. Why these specimens are given such regal care I suspect, but can’t explain. Delicate shoots pile out of sturdy stalks; roots force the confines of my decorative pots. How many neighborly...	Jan.04.2012 Difficult to Read Happy New Year! Hope your holidays were great. I'm just back from a wonderful trip to the Canary Islands (via Zurich). Over nine days I logged in 35 hours of flying time, so I had lots of time to read. For seven straight hours I read a Mishima story in Japanese that came with bountiful English...
Nov.24.2011 Jet Lagging November 24 Jet Lagging Baby’s feet kick in the isle and we are all cocooned in our seats. The movies play and earphones dangle in our ears. We are jetting across the country in our own little worlds. Landing can not happen soon enough for me,...	Jun.07.2011 It's All A Blur: Return From My Journey I arrive home and can't tell what day it is anymore. Could be Saturday, but most likely it's Sunday. Local time is 2 a.m., says the clock, but that hardly means a thing. I am tired, feeling like I have half my body in today and the other in both yesterday and tomorrow. It's a weird feeling of...
May.22.2011 Where Am I? We board our A330 Air France Jet, begin to acclimatize to French culture: The language is French and secondary instructions and directions are given in English. The crew is professional, crisp-looking in their uniforms and attend to us quickly when we have questions. There is only one child on...	Oct.24.2010 Something Delicious, Part Four: Grounded What grounds you? That's a serious question for a person who travels for work as much as I do. When I'm rooted in my own time zone, my tastes run toward a particular balance of the exalted and earthy: intensely bittersweet music, especially the most baroque blues; accidental intimations of...
Oct.16.2010 A Little Nutty Jet Lag Madness Not sleeping can make one crazy. We all know this, but it's weird to see it in action in yourself. For instance, one early morning I awakened at 2 and then got up to do a little work. I'd held a book giveaway contest on a web site, and I was notified that the list was ready. "Excellent!...