Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run.

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.