We’re 53!
Singapore turned 53 years young on Thursday, marking its 1965 expulsion from Malaysia (with whom it had had a brief and stormy marriage) and subsequent declaration of independence. Singaporeans love […]
Crooks and Kickbacks
We visited Singapore’s museum of corruption last week. Yes, Singapore has a museum of corruption, as do Thailand and the Ukraine (I’ve also read that they have one that will […]
Singing for the Gods
On our way to the wet market at Beauty World last week, Prescott and I stumbled upon yet another mysterious giant tent in the middle of a field. My querying […]
Towers of Glory
If you ever have the chance to go to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on The Mall in Washington, DC, I would highly recommend it. The Smithsonian chooses anywhere from one […]
Wet, Wet, Wet
If you’re ever in Hamden, Connecticut, and the temperature starts rising, you might wonder why there’s so much water nearby and nowhere to swim. You can’t swim in Lake Whitney […]
Blown From the Sand
While we were in the US this summer, Prescott and I visited the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York. This museum was founded in 1951 as a 100-year […]
Musings on Hellas
I am so interested in seeing new places that I rarely return to the same area of a country a second time. Yet I have now made three trips to […]
The End of the World
The ancient Greeks believed that the gate to Hades lay in an underground cave beneath Cape Tenaro (also called Cape Matapan), the southernmost tip of mainland Greece. It’s a remote […]
Western Mani Beauty
The Mani, the area in the southwestern finger of the Peloponnese, has traditionally been one of the harshest, driest, most remote areas of Greece. It was one of the only […]
Rocks and Water
We had to pass a ruined church, a ruined house, and a ruined wall to access our Airbnb apartment in Kato Chora. But Jocelyn and I spent a full three […]
