Laredo, Texas is not one of the places that people usually talk about having gone to, unless it is to express relief that they are no longer there. The border town on the Texas-Mexican border boasts summer temperatures of above 105 degrees, has very little to do except take the three minute walk across the ...

Going to college in New Orleans was an exercise in stamina. Of course, every kid who went to college loves to claim that theirs was the biggest party school, but this is not what I mean by stamina. The thing about going to Tulane was not that there was always something going down in somebody's ...