I visited Guatemala in 2008 for a writing and yoga retreat, held at a yoga center on stunningly gorgeous Lake Atitlán, which is surrounded by volcanoes. A Nahuatl word, Atitlán means “the place [...]
Do you watch the end titles of a movie just to see the locations where it was filmed? If so, there’s a news flash: the final three Star Wars films (The Force Awakens, Return of the Jedi, and The [...]
Ringing in the New Year with a Strauss waltz concert has become a beloved tradition that began in Vienna, Austria, in 1939, and has spread around the globe. Each year the Vienna Philharmonic [...]
You can tell a lot about a person by their books: at home and on the road. I have shelves of uncategorized fiction, including books I’ve read and those I haven’t. There’s a small, poetry-sized [...]
