The Lion King was definitely one of my favorite movies when I was young. I still say very well done Disney. It was a great story, beautiful animation and of course, involved amazing animals. And ever since the film was adapted to the stage in the late 90s, I’d heard…
One thing that I looked forward to the last several years in DC was the Turkish Festival. Every year, I kept thinking would be the year that I would have my coffee grounds read. I’ve been when it’s been freezing and I only stayed for a few minutes to get…
One of my favorite things about living in DC was the annual Library of Congress’ book festival. I found out about it early on in my years living there, and after I did, I never missed it. And I knew it was going to be one of the main things…
The Dallas World Aquarium is, in a word, amazing. The Aquarium has been one of my favorite places in Dallas for about as long as I can remember, even as far back as when the space was just the aquarium only. But now to get to that original space, you…
I went to Paris, TX for the first time the other weekend, just for the afternoon. It was never so much that I avoided it, but I have to admit that I thought it was much further away from Dallas than it actually is. But of course, the name gets…
The other week I had the opportunity to sit at a book talk and signing with Khaled Hosseini, who is out on tour promoting his new book And the Mountains Echoed. Hosseini is a phenomenal writer. I’ve read his other two books and was very emotionally engaged in the story,…