Tag: architecture

• February 19, 2026

  #58: Farewell NYC (Part I)

  “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”  -Georgia O’Keeffe Three years ago I was walking along the cobblestone roads that line the affluent Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C. when the most enchantingly curious scene unfolded: A man had his car pulled over on the side of the street,…
• November 29, 2025

  #56: The Heart of the Alps

  Success was found in Zurich, Switzerland in Blog #45, but unfortunately there was a bust in Hallstatt, Austria in Blog #48.  What do you say we return to Europe and give Austria a second chance?  After all, large foreign countries are no different from the United States in the sense that there are multiple regions…
• September 29, 2025

  #54: UNGA 80

  In September 2023, my coworkers and I experienced our first United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).  To those unfamiliar with the foreign affairs conference that takes place annually in New York City, I wrote in Blog #27 about the opportunity I was given to explain the event to a curious young man and his family while…
• February 8, 2025

  #48: Hallstatt

  One or two pages worth of an internet query and it’s easy to understand why nearly 10,000 tourists flock to a town of barely 800 residents on a daily basis each summer.  The fairytale Austrian village of Hallstatt has quite the reputation:  “The most beautiful village in the world”, “One of the world’s prettiest places”,…
• August 9, 2024

  #40: Jordan

  Considered by many historians to be the oldest continuously inhabited place in the world, present-day Amman is the capital and largest city of Jordan.  Nearly half the population of the country lives in the immediate area of the Biblical city which was once known as Philadelphia thanks to Ptolemy II (Philadelphus) so humbly naming it…
• May 13, 2024

  #36: The 75-Year Flood (Part I)

  The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a relatively new country as far as the rest of the world is concerned.  Situated on the Arabian Peninsula directly across the Persian Gulf from Iran, its modern fortune arose from beneath its own desert floor in the form of oil and gas.  UAE’s initial ruler quickly reinvested much…
• March 24, 2024

  #34: Pretzels and Beer

  Continued from Blog #33: Munich Security Conference Hallway reputation.  Personal brand.  Leadership shadow.  Regardless of the buzzwords we use to describe the way others think about us in the workplace, a bad reputation can be hard to shake.  The concept isn’t exclusive to humans, either.  Amsterdam banned the smoking of cannabis in public in an…