Tag: LOVED

I’ve heard mixed reviews about Bangkok, with some saying they absolutely loved it and others saying they couldn’t wait to leave! Here are 5 things that I absolutely loved about the capital city of Thailand: 1. All the Temples! There are over 10,000 temples in Bangkok alone! Temp...

“In this area you should go just behind me,” the stout man says, the th of his this buzzing like a bee. Then, as if to reassure me, he adds, “I’ve been here before, with other colleagues and journalists, and no one died.” I’ve traveled here, to...

Paul Léon was murdered in 1942, For the crime of being born a Jew In Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland. Paul Léon was James Aloysius Joyce’s friend, Yes, the Joyce of Dublin & Galway, Of Trieste, Zurich & Paris, And, off course, Anna L’Liffey...

The University of California, Los Angeles. My alma mater. To be completely honest, I never imagined myself at UCLA during high school since I had my sights set on other schools then. But fortunately, rejections from my “dream schools” and other circumstances pushed me toward UCLA so...

Hello, my future Miamians! Are you ready to immerse yourself in a South Florida paradise? If you’ve been following my blog, you know how passionate I am about unveiling the hidden gems in my magnificent hometown. Today, I am happy to share a place close to my heart: Cutler Bay, Florida. Loc...

“In this area you should go just behind me,” the stout man says, the th of his this buzzing like a bee. Then, as if to reassure me, he adds, “I’ve been here before, with other colleagues and journalists, and no one died.” I’ve traveled here, to...

When you see the mountains, like the Devil’s Head, etched into the background of a cobalt-blue sky, it is an engraving so stark, so powerful and yet so subtle that it leaves you breathless. From beneath a high viewpoint on Black Rock Mountain the Ghost River carves its way, meandering through ...

Have you been to a Christmas Carol Service (yet?) this year? Confounding the predictions that we are becoming increasingly irreligious — people in the town where I live were streaming into churches this past weekend. Candles were lit — lots of them — choirs rehearsed, and tradit...

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the country entered a state of pandemonium. Tens of thousands of protesters in big cities vandalized property with ‘pick-your-choice’ epithets about orange skin and puckered lips. Even the liberal media joined in on the ‘outrage’ despite...

When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, the country entered a state of pandemonium. Tens of thousands of protesters in big cities vandalized property with ‘pick-your-choice’ epithets about orange skin and puckered lips. Even the liberal media joined in on the ‘outrage’ despite...

Do you think most people are immoral, ungrateful, disrespectful, hypocritical, stupid, and incompetent? Politics disgusts you, crowds repel you, you can’t stand the presence of others, and you see the history of humanity as an uninterrupted series of destruction, wars, massacres and inequaliti...

When I was young it was expected that if you were a woman, you had a purse. At first, I didn’t mind having one. I needed to carry my sanitary supplies and contact lens solution anyway. But it did rankle me that men weren’t required to carry a bag of some kind. Plus, women’s clothes...