Chocolate lava cake at Melbourne's Lindt Cafe Travel, like chocolate always leaves you wanting more. With the first bite of chocolate lava cake-I was hooked. Dark chocolate may be my addiction, but travel is my vice. A three-week journey in Israel was the longest I’d ever been on a holiday and it was magical. That...

Now...although most folks I talk to say that travel has made them more liberal, I don't know if there's a cause-and-effect relationship between travel and political views. However, while reading this interview with 30 year-old Jake Towne , the local third-party Libertarian/Tea Party congressional candidate here in Allentown, PA, I couldn't help but notice his...

When I took a meditation course at the Kripalu Institute (which offers a live-in volunteer option for anyone who might want to work, live, and study yoga in the Berkshires) back in 2007, my teacher pointed out that the popular mantra, Om nama Shivaya , is an invocation to Shiva, the god of change. "Change...