When I told my mother I was going to be Wonder Woman at age four, I am almost certain that she laughed and thought it was cute. When I told…

In elementary school, I was the poster child for homemade. While my friends ate TV dinners and pizza, my brother and I were feasting on baked chicken liver coated with…

I’m a writer, a creative writer. Thus, my heart does not race and flutter at the words “rhetoric” “pathos” and “MLA documentation.” These things, of course, have to be taught…

Perhaps all authors get nostalgic about their first book. I’m no different. Beads, Boys and the Buddha was my first book ever. It was a dream experience that I will…

I come from a family who doesn’t really savor food in a slow way. Let’s face it, they’re two steps away from slurping their ramen, standing up at the train…

According to our local guide, this temple in the middle of Taipei is considered the most popular and effective matchmaking temple in all of Taiwan. Now, probably because I was…

As I walk up Rue du Cherche-Midi in Paris, I admire the wrought iron balconies. There are many buildings with those balconies in Montparnasse and as if to make the…

  It was our group’s second night in Grasse. Even though we had been in southern France for almost a week, not a crepe had entered our mouths. But that…