We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
Though I knew that poverty certainly didn't buy happiness, I wasn't convinced that money did, either.
The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.
The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
Places have charisma, in short, as much as people do.
Not having a car gives me volumes not to think or worry about, and makes walks around the neighborhood a daily adventure.
My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible.
Movement is a fantastic privilege... But it ultimately only has meaning if you have a home to go back to.
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.
I think the world is always going to be as diverse as it always has been.
Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.
Hello Kitty will never speak.
For centuries, Cuba's greatest resource has been its people.
A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
