Nature Nurtures
I spent most of this week living at the Sacred Mountain in "Own Village," or Taos (as it’s known to most of us). The days comprised an almost-study of iving in harmony with the environm....
Long Distance
Three days left. You should be here in this violent city. And though you have forbidden me to touch myself in your absence, my fingers cannot help but lie like agitated birds near the dark [...]
Nation’s Capital
The Smithsonian is the world’s largest museum (or 17 museums and a zoo, to be more accurate). I was told they have over 140,000,000 objects; whatever the exact number may be, this place mak....
The Capes
Cabo San Lucas is an indefinite place, neither land nor sea, a thin shifting strip between worlds. We left footprints quickly erased by wind and tide, built a castle gone by morning, daydreamed an im...
Evolution, Legislation, and Sex
There is a pervasive interest in sex; as any marketer knows, mention or show sex, and you’ll grab people’s attention. Whether fascinated or furious, nobody is indifferent to sex--so it fo.... .
Beantown
I have grown to expect the highest level of hospitality and service from luxury hotels, so it’s not often I’m impressed. However, in Boston there is a hotel that offers the perfect lodgin....
Windy City
Chicago is a city of world-class status and unsurpassed beauty, with its stunning architecture on the shores of Lake Michigan. We set up in the heart of the "Magnificent Mile," in a hotel jus...
secrets
What would become of us if anyone could guess our most secret desires? If I had known a couple of decades ago, what I know now about my own desires, would I have run from [...]
Columbus
If Columbus is the heart of Ohio, the Short North is the pulse. Fine art. Fine Food. Great Shopping. Great Entertainment...it’s the SoHo of the Midwest. I was merely "dipping my toe in the p...
Seattle
In the midst of the roaring 10s, lavish social affairs took place at what is now my hotel in the Pacific Northwest, this weekend. On the site of what was the first campus of the [...]
Be Mine?
Did you know that while we say "Happy Valentine's Day," actually a more accurate phrase would be "Happy Saint Valentine's Day"? Valentine was a Christian bishop who was martyred in Ro.
City of Lights
Nous sommes arriv's sur la rue Faubourg Saint-Honore, se sentant 'trangement frais (voyagez en jet le retard a ses avantages) un matin fran'ais geler-froid. Notre h'tel, qui a 't' ouvert depuis 1925 ..
