Today you won a hard-fought battle and your prize is America. It won’t be an easy road – there are a lot of challenges ahead of you and whether you like it or not, you’ve got a horrible mess to clean-up from the last guy. Not even a Saturday Night Live skit can mask the [...]
About Melanie Nayer
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Melanie Nayer has written 30 articles so far, you can find them below.
Travel Journal
Customs: Welcome Home
I arrived home from London at 8:03 p.m. local time (1:03 a.m. London time). I was exhausted. I wanted a shower. Someone had horrible body odor on the plane and I wanted out. Finally, the cabin doors opened and I was set free. Off to customs, which surprising wasn’t that long considering it was an [...]
Lifestyle
Hello 2009!
Elephants are signs of luck and longevity in India and China cultures. Many elephant statues are made of jade, thought to have its own luck providing powers, and a stone I hold near to my heart. Elephants are known to be “large and powerful, intelligent, useful, and long-lived” thus leading the pack as a symbol [...]
Europe Travel
That’s Rome
One of the side effects of being a travel writer is that sometimes you wake up and forget where you are, or more likely, what time zone you’re in. Some days you wake up and you’re just too overwhelmed by the sights and the sounds of a new place that it’s almost hard to take [...]
Lifestyle
Gus
I’m working on a report due the moment I walk in the office Monday morning. I’ve spent the past few months working on this in hopes it delivers exactly what we need: notoriety. In working on this report, I’ve spent countless hours on phone interviews, email chats with analysts overseas and online researching stats and [...]
Lifestyle
Another Generation of Timothy Hutton
We decided to break free from the office at 5pm tonight and go see a movie. The screen: “Four Christmases” The time: 5:15 p.m. The place: Boston Common Loews Movie Theater, cinema 6 We grabbed popcorn and a soda and found two prime seats in the theater. Feet up, seat back, dark room … and [...]
People & Culture
Next Stop… Elsewhere
Yesterday was the perfect day in the neighborhood. The sidewalks were empty, the streets were quiet. Not a rumble around. It seemed like the entire neighborhood was mine. Today, it’s all back to normal.
Lifestyle
The Market is Down; My Workout is Up
I started my morning at 6:30. I found my way to the gym in a haze of uncaffeinatation, got on the treadmill and starting running. And running… and running. Before I knew it, I was 5.5 miles into “Good Morning, America”. News of the morning: The market is down, mortgages are folding, people are losing [...]
Politics
Inside the Voting Booth: Behind the Steel Curtains
One day until the most influential election of my generation. Yes, there were influential presidents before tomorrow, but none that I was able to vote for. Tomorrow marks my most powerful vote, and I’m scared as hell. I’ve always been an idealist; maybe to a fault or maybe it’s what keeps me going. I held [...]
Travel Journal
In-flight Observations: Breakups and Bad Flights
The Annual Airline Quality rating survey was released earlier this week and it got me thinking – with so many complaints about the airline industry, what happens to all the complaint letters? Do the airlines ever read the letters? Do they care? Maybe there is a person who is hired specifically to read complaint letters [...]
