Buy locally, think globally is a concept still tough to grasp. I’d rather wait to sell mine to someone who cares about supporting the local makers. [...]
Here’s my idea of travel torture: Sabotaging a holiday by overpaying someone to impose an itinerary on me. [...]
Risk-taking is in the blood of this Scot-American woman: bear wrestlers, sword swallowers. What role does risk play in the way you experience the world? [...]
After seven years in this heavily visited megalopolis, I even the score on what not to do in Istanbul. [...]
When a Turk raised in a conservative Brooklyn emigrant community studies in Istanbul she realizes progress comes from a community, not a location. [...]
New year’s resolutions are often based on what we already know, yet surprising facets of ourselves are evoked by novel situations. Our metamorphosis chooses us. This is especially true in the blogosphere. [...]
After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust: ghost urges from genes and culture long ago severed. [...]
As social networking renders overseas professional women visible and relevant, it’s a powerful tool of self-actualization. [...]
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