Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
It’s been four months since we published our Social Distancing Survival Kit, a list of websites that offer free or near-free programming for home-bound social distancers. Thankfully, most of those sites are still being updated regularly. To review that March post again, click here.
Today, we highlight websites that will take you to new levels of listening,…Continue Reading
We are pleased to have William Falk, Editor-in-Chief of The Week magazine, as our guest contributor. This essay, which appeared as the Editor’s Letter in the March 20 issue, eloquently expresses the challenges…Continue Reading
We’re honored to have Vidya Murlidhar as a guest contributor. Vidya presented the following essay at a seminar we recently attended. She graciously agreed to let us share it here.
DUNGEONS AND SNIPERS
by Vidya…Continue Reading
[Updated August 1, 2020]
They’ve been arriving in our email in-box for days—notices from artists, cultural institutions and businesses eager to help us make social distancing more bearable. Exercise…Continue Reading
Faced with the rapidly spreading coronavirus (COVID-19), even intrepid travelers have stopped in their tracks. So what’s an adventurous alley…Continue Reading
Yesterday we attended an inspiring climate strike in Charlotte. The event was one of an ongoing series of weekly school walk-outs initiated by…Continue Reading
Believe it or not, some people still doubt that human activity has caused dramatic, irreversible changes to our climate. While climate change deniers push back against scientists who warn of existential threats to humanity, others assert that, if we…Continue Reading