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Lauren's the writing shutterbug. Todd's the artist. Together we have a bit of wanderlust. Learn more...

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World Domination Summit: How I’m investing my $100 to make the world more awesome

World Domination Summit: How I’m investing my $100 to make the world more awesome

Why would someone prone to cynicism travel to Portland, Oregon for a conference that bills itself for those trying to “live a remarkable life in a conventional world”?...

July 11, 2012 with 8 Comments
Captured: Transit of Venus 2012

Captured: Transit of Venus 2012

Today’s transit of Venus is the last one we’ll see in our lifetimes. We were lucky to have a fog-free afternoon to watch the small dot traipse across the sun. We still...

June 5, 2012 with 6 Comments
“Ring of fire: How to chase a solar eclipse” on Indie Travel Podcast

“Ring of fire: How to chase a solar eclipse” on Indie Travel Podcast

Todd and I got a little nerdy recently. Okay, hella nerdy.

June 1, 2012 with 0 Comments
Reality bites

Reality bites

Though we returned from our round-the-world trip several months ago, Todd and I are still updating Ephemerratic with stories and images from the global road— “Yeah,...

March 9, 2010 with 2 Comments
Questionable edibles in San Francisco

Questionable edibles in San Francisco

As our storytelling heads into China and its cuisine that often challenges the Western imagination of what is edible versus what is best left for grinding into hotdogs, I can’t...

January 26, 2010 with 5 Comments

Drawings inspired by in-flight magazines

Sad Puppy – $5, marker on paper, 9.5″ x 6″ After a family wedding in Newark, Ohio, Lauren and I were ready to go home. We didn’t realize it would take 14...

August 27, 2009 with 3 Comments

We interrupt these global tales to bring you a story about Ohio

Biggest basket, really more just a building though| Photo by Lauren Girardin Miss us? Blame some intense family time, the social insanity that is San Francisco in August, and the...

August 24, 2009 with 6 Comments

Here’s to the extended tribe and baked ziti on Long Island

Our trip becomes a geography lesson | Photo by Lauren Girardin On the day of our departure from the U.S., for the international leg of our round-the-world trip, I spent part of...

August 7, 2008 with 1 Comment

In Brooklyn, Big Dawg is king

Waiting for Food in Red Hook | Drawing by Todd Berman As a gravelly, authoritative disembodied voice boomed out over the loudspeakers, the hundreds of Brooklynites swimming at Red...

August 2, 2008 with 1 Comment

Chi-town’s abundant meat tubes

Wrigley, Cubs 3, San Francisco Giants 1 | Art by Todd Berman Much love from Chi-town, home of abundant meat-tubes, be they bratwurst, hot dogs, or polish sausages – they are...

July 19, 2008 with 1 Comment
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