An outgrowth of the author's regular travelblog published in the e-zine PopMatters, Peripatetic Postcards counsels us that the path inward occurs by venturing outward, revealing that inner discovery is the unexpected, but valuable stowaway on the external voyage.

Populated by cabbies and hucksters, the homeless and gangsters, drunks and swingers, clerks and tour guides, adventurers and athletes, cops and stewardesses, tourists and restaurateurs, parents and children, Peripatetic Postcards delivers a set of lessons about life and musings on the human condition, informed by popular culture, with stops in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bangkok, Berlin, Cairo, Hiroshima, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kyoto, Lisbon, Moscow, Narita, Oslo, Paris, Pasadena, Queens, Salzburg, Sendai, Seoul, Singapore, Stockholm, Syracuse, Taipei, Tokyo and Vienna.

Operating at two levels, the book seeks, foremost, to convey the panoply of human experience for those looking to broaden understanding of personal process in an increasingly globalized world—a world where travel has become one of the most widely shared forms of collective experience; our contemporary lingua franca. At a deeper level, it provides a model for self-discovery and growth, personified in the author's experience.

Here is a read, above all, for those who seek to make sense of the collision of inner and outer, and complex negotiation between local and global worlds. A set of lived lessons, too, for those who seek to understand the deeper meanings of life through the interactions between oneself, other people and alien places.

By turns literary, ironic, humorous, hip, philosophical, entertaining, thought-provoking, serious, compassionate, fearful, hopeful, inspirational, and introspective, Peripatetic Postcards is bursting with energy, attitude, wisdom and verve, and should prove engaging for a wide spectrum of readers.