Congratulations go to Autumn Millhouse, who has recently started Launch Studios, what she’s calling “an affordable public relations and marketing company focusing on author and book promotion.”  The company provides “strategic book and author publicity campaigns, specializing...

World tourism has suffered a sharp drop of -8% in the first four months of the year. The number of international tourist arrivals reached 247 million between January and April, down 22 million from the volume of 269 million recorded last year, according to the World Tourism Barometer. Tourism is seriously...

Sandy Sims‘ story “Rosie is Still the Queen” ran in the Cupertino News on July 14th. Rosie the Ribiter jumped 21 feet 5.75 inches in 1986, and nary a one has beaten the long-legged beauty since. But each year, during the third week of May, contenders trek from all over the United States...

Ice Class Ship Lyubov Orlova in Hudson Bay (all photos by John Montgomery) John and I are just back from the land of Inuits, polar bears, musk oxen, walrus, and mosquitoes. Among some of the things I learned on our Arctic Cruise: – The Arctic is not that far away, just a few hours flight from very...