This past weekend Chris and I traipsed coast-ward, to spend two days soaking up sun wind and sand, and while there was only swimming to be experienced on a dare, it was, as usual, breathtakingly beautiful.

We started our two-day mini getaway in Astoria and worked our way south on the 101 until we reached Lincoln [...]

This week was admittedly tough for me, but in my experience even the most melancholy weeks are never devoid of a few hearty guffaws, which is admittedly quite awesome, as a life without hearty guffaws is no life at all.
Below are some fantastic nouns that made the past few days much more jovial than they [...]

The following post and subsequent interview between the lovely Mrs. Carolyn Bahm and myself is part of an ongoing project living on Neil’s site known as “The Great Interview Experiment.”
I was overwhelmed for six days and seven nights after reading the post and subsequent comments surrounding the aforementioned experiment, and finally, after much pacing and [...]

While about to take off from the Mobile airport two hours ago our captain came over the intercom and quickly muttered something about not going anywhere, as the front windshield of our miniature plane had cracked. Our lovely and Australian-accented flight attendant assured us the plane’s windshield wasn’t actually going crazy so much as it [...]

As a Sneak Peek Sunday bonus! I bring you: some Mobile, Alabama trivia, for those hard to start dinner party conversations, or those awkward moments around the water jug at work, where, in my work experience, no one really stands to chat anyway:

Jimmy Buffet was (born in Mississippi and) raised in Mobile, Alabama, where eventually [...]