A Modern-day Indiana Jones

"For a robbery, I thought it was pretty amiable." -just a day in the life of Maya researcher Dr. Ed Barnhart. Read the full Q&A here.
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Remember

"Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; fold the whole earth in peace." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Looking back at old Uppingham photos... here's one from the France & Belgium battlefields field trip for Remembrance Day (one day late).
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Brit Inspired

Olympics start today!
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Hej

"Finally, a Swede loves the sun, hates queuing, gets a kick out of being first on the bus, detests winter, enjoys sex, can't stand gypsies...doesn't believe in God, worships Ingemar Stenmark, only gets drunk when he drinks, is patriotic (wears Swedish flag underwear), visits the off-licence twice a week, visits his parents at Christmas, goes to English classes, and, inevitably, is deeply offended by an article such as this." -from a blog post titled "What or Who is a Swede." Seems pretty accurate, I'd say. Read the rest here.

Photo taken in Berlin, Germany during the 2006 World Cup.
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Scandinavian Stereotype

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Brilliant

"The Internet has dramatically speeded up linguistic crosspollination among national or regional forms of English." -from Slate, about how Britishisms are creeping into American English.

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Travel Advice

"Follow the locals. You know what they look like. They know what you look like. If they don't look like you, follow them! Don't follow the people who look like you, you might as well stay home." -NFL star/traveler/author Dhani Jones. See the rest of my Q&A with him here.

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3:59.4

"I find in running -- win or lose -- a deep satisfaction that I cannot express in any other way. However strenuous our work, sport brings more pleasure than some easier relaxation. It brings a joy, freedom and challenge which cannot be found elsewhere." -Roger Bannister, who ran the first sub-four-minute mile 57 years ago today.
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House of Love

Aw heck, let's just make it a royal wedding weekend...
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Royally Wonderful

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Good To Go. No?

"I just read all the article. It is good and I didn't found mistakes. I have just 2 point I wold like you correct." -e-mail from an Italian mountaineer verifying (maybe?!) information in an upcoming Outside article. No wonder fact checking takes so long.
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Il bel far niente

"The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement." -Italian philosophy, according to Eat, Pray, Love.
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Inside My Phone

"I live you a message in your voice mail." -an e-mail from a woman in Mexico regarding a story I was fact checking. If only my Spanish were as good as her English (but hey, I did buy a Spanish-English dictionary this weekend!).
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Synchronized ... cycling?

Watch the video here. Incredible.
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Oh, Paula

NYC Marathon is today:)

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How it is

"She cried a great deal, because women take such things hard, but she did not overdo it, because women don't give up easily, either." -A Very Long Engagement.

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Study Abroad

Who knew that my 116 Years of Corks & Curls would get my name in the Guardian? Ha.
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High School Woes

"I looked back at the six years I had spent at Gokomere High School. I was never going to come back again. I was 18 years old, had not grown a beard, barely 5 feet 4 inches tall and I weighed less than 110 pounds. I had not cut my hair for more than three months, and it had curled up and looked like a bunch of black raw pasta stuffed on my head." -my favorite lines from Munashe's book about growing up in Zimbabwe. I've had the privilege of editing the memoir -- definitely a great read.
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Prep School Pep

Goodness gracious. They were much better behaved when I was there ;)

Read the story here.

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Delicious

"I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better." -Ode to Chocolate by Barbara Crooker, from the Writer's Almanac. Read the rest here.
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