My friend once told me that my sex life would improve if I injected more spontaneity into it, instead of planning it..."Just making love whenever the mood strikes," she advised me. On my next....

Memphis, home and fierce caretaker of the blues, is lovely, with approachable people and fabulous fireflies--wish we had those bugs in Los Angeles. The people were kind, approachable, and down-to-ear....

At more than 2 miles above sea level, Mauna Kea floats like a miragte over the balmy valhalla of the Big Island of Hawaii. This last week, we were cruising around the volcano in a helicopters, captiv....

What is it, when a man sits at his desk, his latest project set out in front of him like a small world, diagrams and papers and plans and buildings and inventions and creations, everything he hopes to..

Where I ride and practice polo here in Southern California, there are a few outbuildings, a small barn, and a corral. I ride Gunner, an old reliable trail horse who has been ridden for more than 15 ye....

I have never before seen a wolf up close, until now. I have seen them on television, mixed in with coyotes in large packs on the Discovery Channel or the like. But on a late-afternoon snowcoach tour...

A city with a contagious energy, Hong Kong shines on the southeast coast of China at the Pearl River delta. This was my first visit, and I found the city’s fusion of cultures both fascinating a...

No race of creatures can exist unless it is endowed with a desire for reproduction. In order to strengthen this desire in humans, Nature decorated our reproductive organs with tufts of curling hair a....

Oh the slopes again (yeah, I’m an addict, what can I say?), but this time I was able to sneak away and do it a new way...by Caterpillar! In a word, awesome...not like the resort stuff, yet more..

It really is tough to decide whether I love winter or summer more. I mean, I do adore beaches and bikinis, sand and sun, but who can say that California’s monster mountain, in the middle of now....