Work/Life/Travel Balance

“What do you do?” It took me a few years to get to the answer I wanted, but I was pretty darn excited when I could start truthfully answering, “I’m a travel writer.” Now that I’ve been answering that way for quite a few years now, I’ve noticed that nearly everyone seems to ask one …

I have been doing a lot of traveling the past two months and therefore a lot of catching up on stacks of magazines. It seems that everybody and their brother has felt a need to do a “green issue” lately (or in Island’s case, a “blue issue” just to be different). Green as in “save …

You don’t often see a surprising article in a personal finance magazine. In general, they’re all about trying to put an interesting spin on budgeting, investing, insurance, real estate, and achieving your financial goals. Kiplinger’s Personal Finance throws a good curveball in that mix every month or two though, and the current issue has a …

I’ve always liked what Doug Lansky writes because he comes across as a sensible, well-rounded traveler who sees things with the proper amount of humorous perspective. So I often recommend his First Time Around the World book to those setting off for an extended bout of travel. The Signspotting book he compiled for Lonely Planet …

I just spent five hours on a Saturday finishing up a ghostwriting project, after working a good 50 hours already this week. But I didn’t do this so I could squeak out the car payment on a new BMW or add a home theater to my sprawling McMansion. I did it so I could get …