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before things get weird, and you wonder why I never mention this world-class city. Park Güell Photo Credit: Author I have lived just outside the magestical metropolis of Barcelona for almost six years. I've dragged my husband to see most of the important works of art and architect...

Lisbon is simply divided by 3 main areas you as a tourist must go (we’ll talk about the other two in the future) The first one is the “Old town”, The old town is basically the 4 oldest neighborhoods Alfama, Graça, Mouraria and the Castle one, a common mistake is thinki...

The Baixa area of central Lisbon is a bustling and vibrant part of Portugal’s capital city with a rich history and culture. It is home to a vast array of restaurants, cafes, shops, and cultural landmarks that make it a popular destination for both tourists and locals alike (but watch out for t...

The grizzled, muscular and yet sagging man with the dark, slightly greying long hair raised his arms victoriously. He was wearing tight black spandex pants and sweat was running down his face. He hadn’t fought off his competitor, but he had won the affection of the crowd who were cheering his ...

Most people don’t believe me when I tell them this story, but it’s true. They tell me not all inhabitants of New York City are cruel, and my brain tells me they are right. But my heart says otherwise. It was a bleak day in November more than forty years ago, and Mary Ellen drove us to...

I’m of an age where my circle of friends are from many walks/times of my life. Some are old friends and some are new; some are nearby, some far. Some share my point of view; of course, some don’t. Some remember me from a very specific period of my life, like my Peace Corps friends, and s...

This is the seventh shrine in the Ginza shrine tour. The atmosphere is a little different in the same Ginza… and when I looked it up, I found that in the Edo period I found out that in the Edo period (1603–1867), many woodcutters lived in this district. The street name “Kob...

Kabuki-cho in geography Kabuki-cho is located northeast of Shinjuku Station and is approximately 600 meters square. Although the area is small, the number of stores is much larger than the area itself, with more than 1,000 restaurants, hotels, and entertainment facilities crammed into it. It is ...

What is unusual was that the production of this piece was started by a single ballet teacher, me, Haruka Seki. The picture book “POUPELLE OF CHIMNEY TOWN” tells the story of Lubicchi, a boy who believes in the stars in a town where the sky is covered with smoke. “Believe. Eve...

The very first — and often thought of as the most important — Yama, is ‘Ahimsa’, which means ‘Non-violence’ or ‘non-harming’. (‘Himsa’ = ‘hurt’ and ‘a’ = ‘not’) In this sense, we’re talking about no...

Halloween is for the dead, and that now includes, by his own admission, Xavier Dolan’s career. Once the preternaturally gifted brat of the art house world, gracing thousands Tumblr pages in the 2010s, having debuted his first feature film I Killed My Mother at the Cannes Film Festiva...

Ifyou live in a mid-sized city in the United States, chances are there is a Black side of town. Of course, there may be exceptions, such as West Virginia, Wyoming, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, and Iowa, which the census says are the areas with the largest share of white residents in America. But e...

Jake says, “Your mom,” in response to most of my questions, like “Where is the remote?” He says it with a slight smile, perennially unable to hold a straight face. And when he reads this, he’ll crack a joke about his “straight face.” In early 2021, Jake r...

The very first — and often thought of as the most important — Yama, is ‘Ahimsa’, which means ‘Non-violence’ or ‘non-harming’. (‘Himsa’ = ‘hurt’ and ‘a’ = ‘not’) In this sense, we’re talking about no...

A lot of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people feel discouraged and set upon lately. What we’re calling the “LGBTQ Backlash” has unleashed a lot of seriously toxic discourse on the public stage, not to mention an avalanche of state and local lawmaking designed to erase or ...

I’ve written before about how I was raised in a sundown town and how sundown towns still exist. There might not be signage outside modern sundown towns that read, “Whites only within city limits after dark,” but the townspeople still find ways to push ...