Connecting Across Cultures
Pockmarks or Polka Dots? My three-year-old niece sits beside me, looking at my face. She touches my left cheek, and in her adorable little sing-songy voice she exclaims: “You have polka dots!” In a split second, many thoughts come to me: How, in my early 20s, my skin was so bad that I
Today is THE day! It’s the big three-oh of my 30-Day Yoga Challenge! Initially, I started the challenge as a way to stay motivated during these crazy Coronavirus days, where most of us are spending WAY more time within the confines of our own homes than we’re used to. Without any structure to my days,…
For this edition of my travel blog, I’ll be traveling a considerable distance: twenty-two years, to be precise. Let’s journey back in time together to a very good summer, the summer of 1996. That’s when I worked as a camp counselor in Interlochen, Michigan. It’s also the year I received the love letter I’ve decided…