Tag: travel
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Who’s Listening at the Airport?
From a facial recognition snafu at TSA to defense contractors talking too freely at the gate — a return trip from Colorado proves that privacy in public is mostly an illusion.
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The Provisional New 7 Wonders of Nature: A Bucket List of Travel
The New 7 Wonders of Nature have been tentatively announced after the first count of votes on 11/11/11, though the final 7 may differ once the votes are confirmed. Being the Nature Girl that I am and finding wonders in everything in nature, I was intrigued by the idea of what 7 places in Nature…
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Romance of Nature
Copyrighted by Lorna Tedder. Originally published in Third Degree Rising. How strange it is, this juxtaposition of nature and technology. It is midnight on the last day of March, and I am sitting at the top of a green and grassy hill, alone, with my laptop and a great wireless connection. The moon is almost…
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Mid-Life Options: Where Do We Go from Here?
Life is wide open and full of options. And I don’t really know where to go from here. I don’t recall ever having so many options open for me at 18 or 25 or 30. Back then, I felt–and was often told–that I have so terribly many alternatives for my future but that I would…
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Having a Family Is Not an Excuse for “No”
One of my colleagues, when she was 8 months pregnant, was asked with great disdain why she would consider having a child and didn’t she know that having a family life would hurt her career as a contract negotiator? I wanted to think we’d come a lot farther in women’s equality, especially since I’ve never…
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Fulfilling Childhood Dreams
After listening to Randy Pausch’s The Last Lecture audiobook, I started thinking about my own childhood dreams and whether I’d achieved them. Most, I have, but of course, I’m not stopping there. I added to the Dream List throughout my teen years and throughout my adult life, so I have no plans of quitting now.…
