What Makes Me Laugh

  Day two in Australia and I’ve already seen things I never thought I would see in my lifetime: Kangaroos in the wild, and Doug giving himself a facial.        For those people worried that we would be met at the airport by Nigerian e-mail scammers, not to worry, we hailed a taxi [...]

Here’s the short version: First, read Martha Beck. Next, set a wildly improbable goal. Then, Google “Win a Trip to Australia.”  Enter contest. Win contest. Travel to Australia. Here’s the long version: It started with my niece Hannah, who is studying abroad this year in Australia at the University of Queensland. Before she left last summer, [...]