When we travel, we have to plan our schedule, meetings, transportation and clothes ahead of time, and we really have to do the same with our fitness regimen.

When we travel, we cede a lot of control over our schedule, our meals, our workout facilities and so forth, so it is harder to stick to our diet and fitness routine,

Okay, try this on for size, Tall, Dark and Handsome. I won't be born for almost seven hundred hundred years. How's that strike you?

We do get a lot of different, strange phone calls from tour operators and travel agents, wanting to know: Is the drinking water safe, do you have E. coli? It's alarming, because it can spread so quickly, the false information.

We keep hoping, by recruiting more people for meetings, they can help us come up with more creative ways to get funding.

Directors' fiduciary duties require significant time. It's not simply putting it on your résumé and phoning in for the meetings.