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
Meet Jody Van Engelsdorp Gastelaars from Haarlem, the Netherlands! She’s a good friend and fellow Rick Steves tour guide. She’s also a twin! (No, not my twin!) She’s got her very own identical twin sister, Ruby. And — although Jody’s nearly twelve years younger than I am — she’s been a great professional mentor for…