Mike and I are cat/house sitting for my cousins while they vacation down the Cape. I’m not a cat person, but Mike is and he is loving it. My cousin told me that the cat, Manny, acts like a dog. I find that many ”cat” people say that to me when I say I prefer dogs. I always nod and [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Monday, August 11th, 2008
It’s Friday and even though here in Boston it was thundering and lightning all night, and today there will be a good chance of thunderstorms, this Saturday shouldn’t be too bad- at least according to weather.com. And you know what, Girlfriend Getaways, a magazine published by Budget Travel, published 5 great U.S. girlfriend getaways last [...]
My friend Bryce, 10th grade World Geo Teacher/unofficial professional photographer/avid traveler, just got back from a solo travel trip to Peru and her pictures are breathtaking. They can be found here on flickr, but I am also taking the liberty of blogging vicariously through her and showing some of them off here… Cusco, Peru Machu [...]
Mike tipped me off to a Huffington Post article last night – Comcast bought DailyCandy for $125 million – much more than the anticipated. More info found on Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY blog and more background at Conde Nast Portfolio. And according to the Associated Press, Comcast hopes to expand DailyCandy’s audience by promoting some features on [...]
Isn’t my new water bottle so pretty? I bought this at Starbucks, mostly because I have been wanting to buy an aluminum water bottle and partly because I loved the colors and the design (can you tell I like blue)? A while back I blogged about the ecofabulous globetrotting guide and highlighted their tips for [...]
A while back Mike and I watched a documentary on the Discovery Channel on John James Audubon. His paintings of birds are known for being so detailed, vibrant and full of life because he shot down real birds, pinned their dead bodies up against a board, posed as if in flight, and then painted them. [...]
According to what I consider to be one of the most up to date and thorough resources for print editorial changes, contact information, etc. – Meg Weaver’s Wooden Horse Publishing – Everywhere magazine will fold after four issues. In case you hadn’t read my last post about this, Everywhere is a reader-generated travel publication.
Inspired by the popular National Novel Writing Month (Or NaNoWriMo), Christine over at Almost Fearless had a great idea of turning August into National Travel Writing Month (NaTraWriMo). The object is to make the commitment to send 31 query letters between August 1-31, 2008. It is focused on writing a small amount per day (a [...]
