Here’s your mid-week break.

It’s a little thing we call the Hump Day Hiatus. The week is officially half over. You’ve earned a bit of a break. You need a little palate refresher to get the downhill side of the week off and running. That’s where the Hump Day Hiatus comes in. But it’s a partnership. We’re in this together: we post, you click. …

In Memoriam: Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou, who died a week ago today… was she one of those people who was famous for being famous? What did she actually do in her 86 years (4/4/28 – 5/28/14)? If you ever wondered, “How does a poet make a living?” this short Hump Day Hiatus video will offer a tiny clue that she was not just a …

Here is your Hump Day Hiatus

Take it, please. It’s a brief escape from whatever you’re doing and wherever you’re doing it so you can tackle the remainder of the week on a fresh set of batteries. This time, a place we have visited before: Dubai. What an amazing place has risen from a barren plain of sand and dust.

This week’s Hump Day Hiatus

The week is officially half over. You made it! Here’s a quick and pleasant break to get you ready for the rest of the week in fine style. It’s what we call the Hump Day Hiatus. Enjoy!

The Hump Day Hiatus

Remember that ultra-spectacular Hump Day Hiatus awhile back from New Zealand? That fabulous island did not give up all its lovely secrets in one brief video. Herewith, therefore, a return trip awaits, perhaps even more beautiful than the first. How are these timelapse “movies” made? What you’re about to watch is actually thousands upon thousands of still images, which somehow …

HUMP DAY HIATUS

This is the kind of thing that is on many people’s lifetime must-see list: the spectacular light show of the aurora borealis, the northern lights. To whet your appetite, here’s an armchair journey to Technicolor Alaska. Suggestion: definitely watch this in full-screen mode. Technicolour Alaska from Alexis Coram on Vimeo.

Here is your mid-week break

This is one gorgeous tour of Europe, just the ticket to get you over the Hump Day hump and ready to a.) finish the rest of the week in grand style and, b.) start planning that trip to Europe. Too bad it’s only a shade over 4 minutes long. Watch this in full-screen mode if you can. (To do that, …

Ready for a break?

You’ve made it halfway through the week. Don’t you think you deserve a mini mini-vacation? How about this: let’s go somewhere thousands and thousands of miles away and still in the same time zone we are. Yeah, let’s go to Argentina and Patagonia. And let’s be back before breaktime ends. If you’ve never been, Argentina and Patagonia are barren and …

Your Hump Day Hiatus is served.

This lush and lovely video makes me so glad I’ve chosen this planet to live on. Location, location, location. Do you realize that there isn’t a single drop of water (not ice; water) in the known universe that isn’t on our lovely planet Earth? As naturalist Loren Eiseley once said, “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained …