Credit Where Credit is Due

I never would have start this blog if it weren't for inspiration from my friends Karen Nielsen and David Alport.

Karen Nielsen gets the lion's share of the credit.  Karen recently left GlaxoSmithKline, a client of mine for more than ten years, and took advantage of time between jobs to spend a month in India, taking part in a remarkable program to study public health and experience first-hand the challenges of healthcare delivery in the developing world, particularly in terms of women, children, the HIV-positive and intravenous drugs users.  I bookmarked her blog and checked it every day.  I suggest it to anyone:  Karen's India Travels.  

I was also inspired by David Alport's blog, Upright and Stowed. David and his business partner Billy Kolber were the creators of "Out and About," the late, lamented gay travel newsletter, and travel is in his blood.  David posts a photo and a short commentary every day -- and I mean every day since January of 2006  --  and it's one of the first places I go when I turn on my computer in the morning.