Year: 2008

  • GPS or Brain Power?

    This was the second time it happened. On the way back from North Carolina, I simply set the GPS in van and told it to take me home.  I didn’t even bother to take the map along.  It wasn’t until we were in Delaware at the Cape May ferry, that I realized it had taken…

  • Poverty

    The numbers are incredible.  While I was visiting in Mumbai last week, The Times of India ran a front page story on poverty within India.  Did you know that one third of the people defined as poor by the World Bank, live in India.  The means that 456 million (42%) of the population lives on…

  • The Lone Green Bean

    Have you ever eaten a lone green bean? So this update comes from India where I’ve been bouncing around between Bombay, Delhi and Bangalore.  Next to Thai food, I probably have to put Indian near the top of the list.  The type of food is very different between the south (where it tends to be…