FLIPANY
I first learned of FLIPANY when I answered a call for volunteers for a “foodie fundraising event to support a charity that focuses on childhood health and nutrition.” It seemed like a perfect fit! Standing for Florida Introduces Physical Activity and Nutrition to...
How to Avoid Common Mistakes as a Beginner Homebrewer
I’ve been brewing my own beer at home since 2000; almost two decades! Learning how to brew your own beer is a journey, and like many journeys, there will be mistakes along the way. To avoid these mistakes and make the most of your new craft, here’s some advice. Find a...
Hosting an Excellent Outdoor Family Cookout
I posted about planning a dinner party back in May. I love to host and the act of bringing friends and family together, around a great spread of delicious food, is something that brings me joy. Summertime calls for backyard barbecues, unless you live in Miami like I...
Walking with Detour
Following my own advice, I recently took a four day weekend and visited New York City. Right before I left, I read the news that Detour, a GPS guided walking tour app, had been acquired by Bose and was available for free. I downloaded it and all of the New York City...
What’s The Best Camera for Your Travels?
Cameras are one of the many essential items that travelers commonly bring on journeys. However, anyone in the market for a new camera may find it difficult to choose from the many options now available on the market. There are many types of cameras in a wide variety...
How Dr. Colin Knight Plans a Dinner Party
Planning a dinner party can be a laborious task, so it's important to go into it with an effective plan and clever tips to ease the cost and effort involved. Invite guests Entertaining party guests is the core concept of any dinner party, so my first order of business...
The Different Types of Home Exchanges
In Dr. Colin Knight's last blog, he wrote about how he got into home exchanges and the safety of it. This blog explains the different types of exchanges you can do. --- There are three types of exchanges: simultaneous, non-simultaneous, and multi-party. You can also...
Home Exchange: Free Lodging Around the World!
I love to travel. I also love to save money. When I first moved to Miami, my senior partner introduced me to a way to combine the two: home exchanges. The basic idea is to find someone from where you want to go who wants to go where you are. You can stay in their...
Film vs. Digital
I invested a lot of time in learning to shoot with film. I was fortunate to spend a year in Detroit researching applications of surgical robots to pediatric surgery while I was a resident. Since I didn’t have call responsibilities, I took a year-long black and white...
The Importance of Traveling
I travel as much as I can. Ironically, I live in Miami, a place that many, many people travel to. But even so, for a variety of reasons, I find that travel of all sorts is important to me. Traveling doesn’t have to mean an extravagant vacation to some far off distant...