Places like New York are just too intense, too much about money, too much about ambition; it's all too superficial for me.
The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.
I don't shop online. I'm always scared to put my credit card on the Internet!