Let’s change gears! Enough friends, students, colleagues, and nonprofits have asked for recommendations, advice, and stories of the questionable brilliant things I’ve done over the years that I’ve (finally) decided to collect all those listicles and letters into a single repository.

Itineraries sound like work, instead here you’ll find curated lists of things you might want to check out. I’m typically already traveling for work – probably presenting at a conference – I don’t need more work. I want a cafe or bookstore for some downtime between sessions, a great place for a meal, and maybe a half-day excursion…so that’s what you’ll find on the listicles: a menu of options. 

Stories though…stories are a different animal. I want fun facts, I want fascinating history, I want cultural appreciation, I want to smell the lilacs in the retelling, I want to hear the pitter patter of rain on slate roof, I want to feel the blistering heat of a peat fire, I want to relive the experience in the retelling. Over here, I’m trading my technical writing for that of the immersive epistolary form.