Catching Up: August, September and October 2009 Stories

Oh how woefully neglectful I’ve been in keeping up with this, my portfolio blog! It’s definitely been a busy few months, I’ve traveled to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, Sweden and Mexico, and have been very busy working on stories throughout.  I also started to write a weekly essay for the most-excellent Perceptive Travel, while [...]

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Shanghai, Stuttgart & Outer Space: Selected Luxist Stories from July

Here are a few of my favorite Luxist stories this month.

Vacation with the Obamas on Martha’s Vineyard 7/20/09
Hot Cars and Red Wine: 4 Ways to Do Stuttgart 7/15/09
Langham Yangtze Boutique Opens in Shanghai 7/18/09
Four Reasons to Toast July 4th with Rum 7/1/09
That Other Moonwalk 7/3/09

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The Heat Seeker, Part 5: Into the Heartland — World Hum, 5/15/09

The grand finale, where I find my heat limit in a most unlikely place: Indianapolis!

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The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love — The Travel Channel’s World Hum

Today starts my five-part series for World Hum on my quest for the spiciest food I could take. (And there’s video of me talking about it too!) It’s a story that took several years to research and then a long while to write, but I’m pretty proud of it, so have a look!
Part One: Currywurst [...]

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A Fresh Idea – Go, May 2009. (AirTran’s in-flight)

Here’s a story I wrote about the farm-to-table dining trend as it’s played out in Indianapolis.

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Bacon for Dessert, Talk about Pigging Out

A quick overview of the ongoing trend of using bacon in dessert. I was checking out the new cheap eats site, 3 Buck Bites, a new endeavor of Citysearch, when it caught my eye: chocolate-covered bacon at Ronie-Sue’s Bakery in lower Manhattan, which costs a mere dollar.

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Go Beyond the Grand Canyon for Views – The Street.com, 3/5/09

Here’s my latest column for The Street.com, on great ways to see amazing scenery in Northern Arizona.  My working title for the piece was “Big Wow Views”, since I found myself saying, inanely, “wow”, over and over again as I researched this trip last month.  I’ve been to a lot of places on this planet [...]

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How a Sunset in Sedona is Like Scuba Diving

I was just in Sedona, Arizona a few days ago, and although I’d been twice before, I’d never once seen it in sunlight– the first time I was there, it rained, and the second time, it was night. On this trip, I finally got to see the place in pure broad daylight.  I thought Sedona [...]

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Burqas, Made into Evening Bags? –The Huffington Post, 2/4/09

I attended the New York International Gift Fair last week, where I was completely taken by a line of evening bags, made from re-purposed Afghani burqas. I’ve written about it over at the Huffington Post.
Here are burqas in their original form:

And here are the bags:

It’s hard to imagine someone making an evening bag out of [...]

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Retoxing and Detoxing in Las Vegas: TheStreet.com, 1/27/09

Based on intensive first-hand research, herewith are my suggestions for the best places to get a cocktail in Sin City, and the best spas at which you can wash away those sins.

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