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Stillness

As modern life has increasingly become urbanized for many or most people, so has the ubiquity of disturbance. By disturbance I mean sonic…

May 12, 2021

Stillness

May 12, 2021

How to Quit Smoking (or Less Hubristically, How I Quit Smoking. Maybe it will work for you, too.)

I started smoking regularly at a young age, around 11 or 12 as I recall. Both parents smoked, so getting cigarettes was easy — there were…

Jan 16

How to Quit Smoking
(or Less Hubristically, How I Quit Smoking. Maybe it will work for you, too.)

Jan 16

My annual tradition

2024 Year End

Jan 1

Jan 1

The Parable of the Trip That Wasn’t

Back in late 2022, I booked a Celebrity Cruises 10 day “Wine Cruise,” sailing from Sydney, Australia, departing on December 1, 2024. A good…

Dec 17, 2024

The Parable of the Trip That Wasn’t

Dec 17, 2024

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Snakebit in Peru (all photos by author)

A phenomenon many professionals in hospitality will agree exists is a true rarity of rarities: the Snakebit customer. The snake in this…

Jul 16, 2024

A Stone Model of Machu Pichu

Jul 16, 2024

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No Nightingale, But Florence

To begin, I confess to having become a fan of Delta Vacations [For the record, I do not now, and never have, worked for Delta. I am not…

Jul 15, 2024

No Nightingale, But Florence

Jul 15, 2024

Year end 2023

Around the sun we’ve gone again At least that’s nearly so I wonder now from where we stand Which way we next should go

Dec 24, 2023

Dec 24, 2023

2022 Year End

Annually, instead of mailing Christmas/Holiday cards, I compose a poem capturing impressions of mine from the year gone (or nearly gone)…

Dec 23, 2022

2022 Year End

Dec 23, 2022

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Hyundai Kona Electric An Excellent Car Whose Reputation Has Suffered at the Hands of…Hyundai

I am the happy owner of a 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric. When I decided to go EV in early 2020, I began searching for one due to positive…

May 21, 2022

Hyundai Kona Electric
An Excellent Car Whose Reputation Has Suffered at the Hands of…Hyundai

May 21, 2022

EVolutionary Thinking

In early 2020, when motor vehicle traffic came to a near standstill as Covid related shutdowns took effect, Utah’s Salt Lake Valley air…

Jan 26, 2022

EVolutionary Thinking

Jan 26, 2022

Tomwalker

Tomwalker

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I, Thomas (Tom) Walker, am a native of Salt Lake City. After many years in hospitality, I retired and have taken up travel/travel writing as an avocation.

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