South Africa PHOTOS!
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); My South Africa photos are here. Sorry for the long delay! Click on each photo for a description. These include my trips to Johannesburg, Cape Town,...
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7 Books that Changed my Life
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Stories have incredible power. Even before there was a written word, tales passed orally, from person to person, generation to generation, connecting...
View ArticleInspiration – Shut up and Write
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); It’s been three years since I first went to a Shut up and Write meetup in San Francisco. The meeting was at Crossroads Cafe, near the Embarcadero....
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Jakarta is Writing
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); In my last post about Indonesia, I wrote Had I not been there, Jakarta would still have gone on, and the city wouldn’t have noticed. It was a one-way...
View ArticleLiving Without Regrets
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Death is the unbeatable ghost, always creeping ever closer. A few days ago, it hit me closely again – I found out that one of my friends from high...
View ArticlePlanting Seeds for the Soul
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When you visit places where great suffering has happened, your soul aches. I felt that a year ago when I was in Dachau, the Nazi concentration camp...
View ArticleLife, Though a Book
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I scanned the entire bookshelf of the library at Birch Coffee, a true New York City gem. The sign clearly said, “Take a Book, Leave a Book, or just...
View ArticleModel Minorities and Expectations
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I was asked to write this for a project someone asked me to contribute to – to help prepare minority youth to deal with racism and ignorance in their...
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Exile vs Traveling
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I’m just about to finish reading Aminatta Forna’s book, The Devil that Danced on the Water. The book traced the author’s memories and search for...
View ArticleWas Grad School Worth It?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I’m sitting at a cafe at Columbia University. An Ivy League school, though the ivy tower seems far less impressive from the inside than the outside....
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