TPA-JFK-CDG-DXB“We ask all passengers to please remain seated and keep your seatbelts fastened. Crew remain seated ( Read more... )

I am thankful the fifth dress was beautiful and fit. I am thankful for consignment shops ( Read more... )

He tapdanced on a flattened cardboard box, that's what I remember. A skinny black man in a Santa hat, on the sidewalk of the Magnificent Mile. His boom box played carols with an electric beat and the crowd, too, was electric--expensive shopping bags in their hands, smiling for Christmas. A light snow was falling, and the big flakes and the lights ( Read more... )

I'm now based in Dubai, but will be traveling in and out throughout the year. I'm also only 2 hours from India ( Read more... )

Dear Idol Community ( Read more... )

Coffee shop. Or here, "café," one of eleven on the ground floor of the mall, the only one with Eggs Benedict. I’ve changed tables three times to get the combination of good chair and non-wobbly table, the waitstaff urging me to move to my preferred daily place when another patron gets up and leaves. Americans tip ( Read more... )

Dating in Dubai is like dating in high school ( Read more... )

In Eastern Europe, there are little pastries called Fornetti. You buy them in a shop, or at stalls at festivals, and you buy them by weight. They come out of the oven every few minutes on big trays, little hot pockets of chocolate or apricot or pizza-sauce or sausage in crispy layers of filo-dough, and the shopkeeper scoops up however many you want ( Read more... )

And for all my dear friends in the Northern Hemisphere, I am absolutely NOT GLOATING about the sunny, breezy days and cool evenings around the fire pit. I’m sure your snowmen, frosty windows, and slushy roads are BEAUTIFUL.

This week I was debating whether or not to buy It Chooses You by Miranda July, and while the eventual answer was “look in a ( Read more... )

North Indian men wear ( Read more... )