Traveling with children takes a bit of planning.  From finding kid friendly restaurants that also appeal to the adults, to locating kid friendly hotels, there are just some things that need to be considered.  In Boston, this is not a problem.  There are many restaurants in the various neighborhoods that cater to the palates of [...]

The Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park — these iconic sights of New York City are well worth a visit for any traveler; however, if you want to go a bit deeper, see a little more, then there’s some pretty great places that most tourists know about only because they’ve stumbled across [...]

Two Panamas are in the world, one lies at its center, the thinnest part of the connecting land between North and South America, home of Panama City and the Panama Canal, one of the great engineering achievements of the early Twentieth Century.  The other Panama rests a bit higher on the globe, also on a [...]

I had been wanting to scuba dive for many years, for as long as I could remember and last year my sister surprised me with a trip to Miami.  Luxury hotels dot the beaches along the coast of Miami, and my sister found us the perfect one, one that was [...]

A lot of health problems are related to stress, there’s no doubt about it.  It’s true that there are many things that can’t be avoided in life, and there are many health conditions that can’t be prevented by any level of foresight.  But stress is certainly something we can do something about.  Avoiding stressful situations [...]

A few weeks ago, it was about 116 degrees Fahrenheit in Phoenix.  It was about two pm, and hot, and I had been up the night before, all night working on the computer trying to meet a deadline.  I was exhausted and had no motivation left.  I have a hot tub in my back yard. [...]

The hottub can be the new centerpiece of the home.  It’s a place of refuge, that delightful idea you might have when you’re at work and the day is more stressful than you’d like, where you start to daydream about relaxing in the hottub when your work is done.  It can also be the magnet [...]