It was Commencement weekend in DC. And I’ll admit, walking to Georgetown for my Sunday breakfast at Dean & Deluca, seeing graduating seniors dressed up, some carrying their cap and gown and others wearing them open over their clothes, made me a little nostalgic. Graduation was a lot of fun.…
Continuing with the pleasure of reliving memories from Cambodia, I move on to Ta Prohm. It would be difficult to name a favorite temple from this visit, because just when I thought I decided on a favorite, I would remember sunrise from Angkor Wat or the faces of Bayon. But…
A couple of months ago, I had the amazing opportunity to visit Cambodia, a country I instantly fell in love with (as I had a sneaking suspicion I would). While most of my trip was centered around Phnom Penh, my friend and I did manage to go out to Siem…
Like so many other kids, growing up one of the many things I wanted to be was an astronaut. I was fascinated by the planets (Venus and Saturn were my favorites), and by the stars and those amazing photos of Earth from space. I used to read our archived National…
I remember that it was so much fun flying kites when I was younger. Of course back then kite flying was essentially in our front yards or maybe down at a nearby park. I can’t remember why it was so much fun. After all, one is simply standing there holding…
I came across this post on Writer’s Digest earlier: How to Start a Book Project. Sounds like kind of a daunting prospect, right? But what the article promotes is setting little deadlines, little goals, to get a book project off the ground. Because writing a book in say, a year,…