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Seeing the world. For so many "grown-ups", the idea of the gap year, bugging out, putting it all in storage is the stuff of post-college. Youthful 20-something types who don't care about carrying a pack or sharing a dorm room get to do this, not people with responsibilities or jobs. For those of us with homes and families and obligations, it seems so far out of reach. Now that we're 30, or 40, or 50 ... it's just not something we can do. I will never tell you that everyone cantravel even while I believe that everyone should travel -- that it makes us better humans. There are a million good reasons why you might not be able to travel. I believe that. But often, the reasons people give for not traveling are a reflection of their priorities, not actual obstacles.  Read more >

This morning at the breakfast buffet, I did something a little weird. After I'd emptied the rest of the sugar packet into my second cup of coffee, I filled the little brown package with salt, folded it in half, and tucked it into my wallet. That seemed a better thing to do than stealing borrowing the cheap plastic salt shaker, though I suppose I could have just asked the waitress, who surely has seen restaurant patrons do odder things in her time, for a dish of salt.  Read more >