The Professional Wanderer

September 14: With less than 24 hours since arriving in Baton Rouge from Virginia, I was already booking a flight to Burlington, Iowa. Thi...

Sitting in my car, I watched umbrellas shielding LSU students from the rain and the drip of Crape Myrtle draped sidewalks. With a few minute...

Reluctantly, I left St Augustine, Florida for a week in Chicago. Quite intimidated by the traffic, I took a hotel near O'Hare and plott...

Arrrrr matey! September 19 is approaching! What's the big deal about September 19, you might ask. Well!....It's National Talk Li...

Main Entry: red·neck Pronunciation: 'red-"nek Function: noun 1 sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural la...

This morning, a co-worker called on the phone and we were talking about California. In the fall of '05 and into the spring of '06, I...

So, at best, sometimes you feel just " average "? How cool would it be if we could just make it mandatory that others saw u...

When Christopher Columbus came to the new world 600 years ago, he spotted what he thought was a mermaid and wrote that they were not quite a...

To some, Newt has a dirt bag reputation and I have to admit that I'm not in his camp on everything that comes out of his mouth. With t...

Main Entry: cur·mud·geon (click the speaker button) Function: noun Pronunciation: (")k&r-'m&-j&n : a crusty, ill...