Strategies for “Interesting Times”: Invest in Talent
Feeling depressed about the future? Invest in someone with a high probability of Making the World Better.
Scenes from a Cambodian Women’s Center
For women in Northern Cambodia, the choices are few, and stark. One bold social entrepreneur aims to offer them something more.
What She Wants Me to Know
At the airport, a Syrian doctor starts a casual conversation that becomes something much more than that.
Lyrics: Drunk on a Pedal Tavern
Bro Country for Bachelorettes
On Beauty
Unwise words that reveal the wide range of human lunacy when it comes to physical beauty.
Strength and Weakness on the Camino
A beautiful essay on grief, friendship, and very long walks, by a young Swiss pilgrim we met on the Camino in 2015.
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times
Dedicated to Anna Yegorova and my beloved авиатриссы, on the 70th anniversary of Russia’s Victory Day
A Good Man’s View of Minimalist Pixie Dream Girl
“She has boobs. They are perfect. She has scars. They are perfect. She has wrinkles. They are perfect.”
The Greenery 