The Human GPS

You know how we all have one special talent: the gift big enough to fill a room; or so subtle only our id knows for sure? I believe everybody has a knack, a flair, call it what you want. We each enjoy our own superpower. My wife is a human GPS. You could drop Mary in...

Travel Advisory: The Cats of Amsterdam

Here’s what happened three weeks ago to the day—March 17, 2010. The signs were all there. I should have seen it coming. It was a Wednesday, a Worst Case Wednesday. I landed in Amsterdam around 11 a.m., about twenty-four hours before speaking at NRC Focus’...