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Kim is host of the web series Galavanting.tv and editor of GoGalavanting.com. She is a travel writer for places like MarieClaire.com and The Huffington Post. She organizes the popular annual TBEX conference of new media travel writers, the next of which will be in Vancouver, June 2011.

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I'm editor-in-chief of Galavanting, an online women's travel magazine. I'm also a freelance writer on topics from politics, to parenting, to freethought. 

Oh, and I've got five great kids; three of my own, and two who came with the love of my life.

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Saturday
May152010

A Robust Mustache

DateSaturday, May 15, 2010 at 10:24PM

I saw a mustache in downtown Chicago today that was so spectacularly robust I nearly snapped a photo with my phone. But I didn't want him to indignantly smack me in the face with what I believe was an accompanying (Yanni-esque) toupée.

If I were to write a haiku about it, it would be this:
Salt and pepper 'stache
Splendor not to be surpassed
Bushy-lipped was he.
 
But no photo. So you'll just have to take my word for it.

 

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Wednesday
Feb242010

We Need All Kinds of Minds

DateWednesday, February 24, 2010 at 11:47AM

Reading one of Temple Grandin's books, Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism, when my son PJ was first diagnosed with autism changed my life. She wrote it as an adult, and gave detailed descriptions of her childhood as an autistic person -- what worked and what didn't.

I also found out from watching her talk at TED while at the airport, that there's a brand new movie of Temple Grandin's life coming out on HBO (starring Claire Danes), and I really can't wait to see it!


Here's her talk this year at the TED conference. She speaks truth about how we need all kinds of minds for the world to work properly. I couldn't agree more. This is amazing:

 

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