A few years back I set off to travel the world. The journey enabled me to swim with Amazonian pink dolphins, summit the highest peak on the African continent, and sail below the Antarctica circle. The 1 1/2 year trip netted me a worldwide troop of friends and stories out the ying-yang. Currently I live in New York City and have decided to write about the energetic madness that occurs here on a daily basis.
Below is the first guest post of my friend Wendy Brown. Wendy teaches the 9th grade at a Brooklyn high school–her classes are ethnically and economically diverse. However, the vast majority of her students fall into the economic category society would describe as “working poor.”
In New York–as well as nationwide–the Sean Bell case is major [...]
When I started to work at For Your Imagination I decided to try out an idea that I have been toying with for a long time–I hired a virtual assistant in India. I first heard about this a few years back when I read Tom Friedman’s best seller “The World is Flat”. Ironically, I used [...]
New Africa Video
If you have not checked out “Dave and Marv’s Tanzanian Safari” Click here
New Gym
“The Wave”–on the upper east side of Manhattan— is a small gym with a plethora of high end equipment used by high end clientèle. I have made it a priority to get into the best shape of my life and [...]
In the last year and half I have introduced the readers of this blog to my worldwide contingent of traveling friends. I figured that it was time to update everyone with the where abouts of some of the cast of characters of Dave Ford Does Earth–notably the crew from our cross country trip [...]
I have been sick for the last week. Strep Throat = No Bueno. I thought only 9 year olds got strep throat, but apparently they are not alone; enters the 30 year old guy in a new city. One of the downsides of being in a new town is getting a new “support staff”: doctor, [...]
