Travel

Years ago I worked for someone determined to earn a million dollars by age 30 (sounds modest now, but this was way before the dot-com explosion and Wall Street gone wild) — and do something [...]

The bars over the broken steps down into the shattered hell that had been an Auschwitz death chamber seemed to be shedding tears. Residue of rain (and snow and hail) earlier in the day, the [...]

During a brief stopover in Berlin several months ago, I was already mulling the idea of starting a blog prompted by my (as yet unpublished) book about Rosi (the survivor who entrusted her story [...]

Every day, multiple online e-letters and e-zines arrive in my inbox.  Most of them I never have time to even scan. But this week, seemingly by chance, I happened to read an article in one that [...]