I didn’t come to China because it felt easy. I came because it didn’t. China has always intimidated me as a travel destination. The language barrier feels heavier here. The systems are unfamiliar. The tools I rely on elsewhere –Google…
Today, I stood at the DMZ –the border between North Korea and South Korea. A line drawn by war. A line that still decides who belongs where. It’s hard to describe the sadness of seeing a country split in two.…
These two songs remind me of my support group on a cruise a group of strangers who, for a brief time, became something more. We arrived from different places, carrying different stories, yet somehow found common ground through shared moments…
Some people enter your life loudly. Others arrive like a soft lamp left on in the dark. Baba C was the latter. She was one of the first people who stayed when I sang karaoke –which, if you know me…
Today, I stood in Nagasaki at a place that doesn’t need explanation. Five hundred feet above where I was standing is where the atomic bomb detonated on August 9, 1945. There is no crater you can step into, no dramatic…
