Connecting Across Cultures
How in the heck are you doing?! Have you survived the ups and downs and craziness of the past year? I know a lot has happened in my life since I last posted β and I’m sure the same goes for you. After publishing my last blog post in June of 2020, I decided to…
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
Guidebook author, television host, and travel icon, Rick Steves, is — under normal circumstances — always in Europe for his birthday (May 10th). And he’s a workaholic, you could say. But that’s just because Rick loves his job and believes deeply in travel as a perspective-broadening force for good in the world. In fact, Rick’s…