America's foreign policy lacks the backbone to do the right thing in Afghanistan - which is leave.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.

I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pacific Ocean, only added to the United States in 1959. Not only that but to be the birthplace of America's first black president? Pretty cool, I bet.

I beg young people to travel.

I know that collector types can be a pain in the neck and seem perpetually frozen in time - or at least in their parents' basement - but someone has to look out for the past, lest it slip away forever.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.