Being a savvy traveler is an exceptionally smart skill to have, easy to develop and hard to do without once you firmly establish the habit. When I look back at our initial travels, I shudder at the immature ways I went about them. I can almost pinpoint the day that my husband read an article [...]
December 2009
Be it naiveté or lack of insight, I have never understood all the fuss about New York and its self-proclaimed greatness. Try as I might, I cannot recollect a single memory of a warm encounter, a nice experience or a kind human interaction during my visits. Sadly, I do have a few sour such memories, [...]
Paris means something different to everyone. Everyone who has walked the streets of this immutable city knows and loves a Paris all their own. For that reason alone, it is impossible to create a universal guide for enjoying Paris. And an even more daunting task would be to claim to have such a guide for [...]
One of the best things that can happen to us in life is discovering a passion, or watching someone close to us discover theirs. In this case, it is my husband who made the discovery, and I his spectator. This was not a thundering bolt of a discovery full of drama and a change of [...]
The other night, I was lost in the mesmerizing world of photography, browsing from one photographer’s site to another, basking in the stunning photographs, the art, the creativity. Then I watched a short video of a photographer’s journey through his career. During the video, he said, quite simply, “Winter always comes.“, referring to the doubts that [...]
The most rewarding things in life seem to get kick started by an unfortunate event of some sort, it seems. Or is this just true for me? Knee pain from rigorous exercise brought me to yoga. Heart break brought me to the love of my life. And chronic pain from nerves, joints and muscles in my [...]
