Why has 2012 been hailed as the year of the independent worker by so many publications? Are companies scaling back full-time employees in favor of project based staff? Though layoffs persist, technology is booming, and with perceptions changing worldwide, things look to be improving for independent workers and the self-employed....
(0) Comments | Posted January 29, 2011 | 11:44 AM
Mountains are climbed year round and each season climbers, both professional and amateur, clamber up the world's most remote and popular peaks for a chance to summit. Unfortunately, not all of these expeditions are as exploratory, or purpose-driven as they should be and few times do these excursions have a...
(0) Comments | Posted December 17, 2010 | 3:58 PM
Years ago a book cover caught my eye. I've always been a fan of the flippant introduction for the TV show My Three Sons and this cover resembled it. It was a drawing of three different pairs of legs, pants and shoes, all next to each other and all...
(1) Comments | Posted November 24, 2010 | 4:33 PM
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston new Art of the Americas wing opened Saturday.
The renovation has been in planning since 1999, and it was designed by the the London firm of Foster and Partners. The new 133,491 square foot expansion holds 53 galleries, all representing the...
(1) Comments | Posted October 26, 2010 | 5:10 PM
Everest Sherpa legend, Chhewang Nima is still missing and feared dead in the Himalayas. On October 23rd, the leading mountaineer was fixing ropes on Mount Baruntse for a British expedition, when an avalanche hit and caused him to fall down the north-east slope of the mountain.
A renowned mountain...
(1) Comments | Posted October 25, 2010 | 11:29 AM
Nowadays its easy to become caught up in suggested places to travel. There are so many guidebooks and magazines available, that they seem to litter the universe with suggestions. Take the fact that everyone wants to go to Machu Picchu, and though they should because it's amazing, after a while...

(7) Comments | Posted February 13, 2012 | 9:51 AM