The bruising presidential campaign/election in the country has left the electorate black and blue. Sensibilities, personalities, ideologies, and especially egos have been savagely smashed, leaving a...
If I were to reduce to numbers our one-month stay in America from mid-March to mid-April this year, they would be: Nine airplanes, nine cities, seven...
Spring in America for tropical beings like my husband and me was winter weather. It was so unbearably brrr, every one of our hosts turned the...
It was definitely going to be a beautiful day in New York, never mind the weather forecast of unbearably cold 30 degrees and rain showers. My...
My friend Lucy facetiously says that Tony and I are on the run. In a way we are: Four major US cities in one month, not...
Making decisions in America is a mind-boggling, brain-twisting, and synapse-altering experience. We go into a burger shop and reading the menu alone makes me go insane....
“Cupertino? Where is that?” people asked when I told them I’d be going there to visit my older brother. Even if it is a big chunk...
It took about three years before I finally mustered enough courage to travel to the US again. Our second son, who lives here with his family,...
Fatigued, spent, and disoriented from the long flight and the even longer queue at the Immigration that required some picture taking, some interview, and some biometrics,...
Twelve hours sitting in one place, hearing only the drone of the airplane, and seeing my legs swell into logs—no matter how you look at it—is...
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