I met fellow travelers in Europe who had been trekking for as long as two years at a time, which sounded less and less enviable every time I strapped on my 13 kg backpack.

From Tenley To You! AU Professor Moves WaPo Readers And Us. If you were reading the Washington Post today and stumbled across the front page of the Health section then you saw Professor Arturo Porzecanski. Professor Porzwcanski was featured because of a rare disease he suffers from and the work he done speaking up for the little known disease called Systemic Capillary Leak Syndrome.

And so is my motivation. No one knows this about me. But when I have the evening off and I retire to my room for the night, I go in with the intention of writing. Wonderful Wizard of Wordly Wishes. All I want to do is yell obsenities. Does that make remotely any sense? I feel a little lost I gu.