Expatrious

Tonight our Molly, our dog, who was our family for fourteen and a half years, fell asleep -- asleep asleep. I felt sick leaving her on the ...

Recently I received an email from a friend explaining how the IPCC made a mistake in their report, “Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation...

I've just finished reading a New Yorker article about the furor regarding Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to try Khalid She...

My friend Ryan Georgioff recently wrote, Naturally, I can't help but feel this is one big cosmic joke. Have you felt it? That hesitant p...

I'm reading Lee Strobel's "The Case for Christ". I'm in the first chapter, and already the book has inspired new quest...

Recommended book for the new decade: Mark Twain's  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. An excerpt: There is a phrase which ...

The Seattle Times published a letter I wrote to the Editor last week. There's many people who are skeptical of human-caused climate cha...

If our childhoods are analogies for our adulthoods, then my symbols are toys. I loved, loved stacking the Lincoln Logs together into fantast...

There's a line in a recent Rolling Stone article that incited some very silly thoughts in my idealistic mind. Here's the line: ...

I just got home from school. I walked in, took off my cardigan (which proved suffocating after ten this morning), set a litre of water boili...

A steadily increasing number of you have asked me how you too can teach English in Korea. I suppose there aren't too many jobs floating...

One of my childhood friends moved when we were teens from Seattle to Muscatine, Iowa. His affection for the home of our youth grew through t...

This is an email I sent on December 26. I didn't have time to post it here as I spent the next week traveling. Then I forgot it. Now, fi...

I like rice. Rice is great if you're hungry and want 2000 of something. -Mitch Hedberg A brief list of answers to potentially common que...