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On Writing
I started writing while traveling. It was useful to thwart boredom during times without much to distract my eyes or my ears, and there were a lot of those times. Then it was an effective way to tie down my thoughts, capturing what I saw and felt at the moment. For an introvert, writing is…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
When live gives you lemons, make lemonade;better yet, make marmalade. A common analogy is to make the best of a situation, but I’d rather interpret it as to look for the sweet and fabulous outcomes of all things. Because if you were going to be a fruit, to be a lemon is among the best…
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Sweet Potatoes
The sweet potato is not a pantry staple like the potato, yet not sufficiently exotic to catch the culinary trendy train like kale or quinoa. Baked into a sweet casserole during the holidays, snubbed by the pumpkin pie like a wallflower, it fills the void in between brown sugar studded ham and stuffed turkey, gravy…
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New Year’s Resolution
Before I get around to proclaiming my new year’s resolution, I should tell you about my favorite corner of earth. I find myself returning to this part of the world time and time again. The first country I visited was Costa Rica, then Argentina and a short stint in Chile; after that, Brazil, and the…
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Journey through Siberia
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”-Anthony Bourdain…
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Finding Beauty
In the year 1490, Leonardo da Vinci sketched the Vitruvian Man, his idea of a perfect human form. Being a man of math and science, it inscribed the ideal proportions of the body within a circle and a square, an analogy for the workings of the universe; and of course being a man, it was…
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