PROLOGUE Much like a book or a movie begins with individual storylines which eventually draw together, so every experience I've shared has laid the invisible rails to bring you here: Russia. What I'm about to share with you has waited a fair amount of time; not because it needed to gain flavor …
author valerie heidt
Childhood Has Become a Bad Cliche
I think all of us have the habit of looking back to childhood for the answer. It's like a bad cliche that keeps popping up in a good book. It yanks us out of the present moment to focus a magnifying glass on the moments that imprinted on us, changed us forever. For me, it was my Dad's anger …
Flying and Black Friday
The airline industry doesn't corner the market on crazy. How about Black Friday? Witnessing human behavior on this day is the most convincing evidence yet supporting the theory that we evolved from primates. It's like watching monkeys fight over a banana. Perhaps evolved is the wrong word. …