If you find yourself with an itch to travel, you might have more in common with early migrants than just wanderlust.  Standford University geneticists have identified a gene that could explain why early man left his farming communities to explore the world, why Americans are natural capitalists and perhaps even why you can’t wait for [...]

I had this idea the other day.  What if I spent one month, really focusing on my writing?  Not just polishing prose that will never get published, but actually thinking like an editor, finding angles and pitching my ideas to a publication.  What if I spent the entire month of August, submitting a query letter [...]

I am haunted by the things I want to write.  Just as I’m about to close my eyes, it comes to me… the perfect article about Madrid or Paris or somewhere I haven’t been yet.  I always promise myself to remember it for the next day, but it never returns, these twilight inspirations.  I think [...]

While researching on writersmarket.com I ran across the listing for the perennial dog lover’s magazine from the seventies: Dog Fancy.  Curious, I clicked through to the submission guidelines, where I found this instruction:
“No stories written from a dog’s point of view.”
Which can only mean that they have not only received stories set inside the mind [...]

I have a rough idea of some of the places I’d like to go, but I’m a bit torn on my next trip.  Should I go somewhere I’ve already been, like Rome?  Or should I see another big city, like Berlin?  Or should I head to beach in Croatia?  Or leave Europe altogether and check [...]