The Walls Came Tumbling Down
I sat distraught and exhausted in the American Airlines Admirals’ Club, staring dreamily at my laptop screen. I was applying the final touches to my enduring midterm — a take-home test for…
Family Reunion of a First Kind
“Sometimes life brings you pleasant surprises — it’s not scripted or orchestrated, but just right. Life can be charming, like that, if you let it.” It was a family reunion…
The Great, Sacred Pyramids of Giza
Egypt boasts so many great wonders, unequaled in any other destination in the world. Cairo just doesn’t boast the Pharaonic monuments. It is a cumulation of the legacies of the…
Rome is for Lovers, Not Runners,
Rome is not a city for runners. There were no runners, just walkers, as I breezed along Via Nazionale, an old Roman boulevard that pierces through the heart of the…