Anytime you travel to a country where you can’t speak the language, it will be a bit of a challenge. When you can’t even recognize the alphabet they use, that challenge gets a little more challenging. And when the locals you’re around speak as little of your language as you do of theirs—which might be pretty much none—you’re in for adventure.
There’s something about Brooklyn that’s just magical. Navigating the different neighborhoods of the borough, you’ll find it rough, gentle, hip, historic, soulful and sweet—all at once.
Because you don’t want to be the person putting people off because you unknowingly crossed your chopsticks.
I refuse to travel somewhere new and leave without understanding even an ounce of the culture, so I did my best to squeeze the real Ethiopia in when I went to the capital city of Addis Ababa for a textile trade show.
Subway étiquette is a real thing. Some people follow it, some people don’t. Some people are just crazy. Even the ones who aren’t actually crazy.
It was 50 years ago today that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his ‘I Have a Dream‘ speech at the momentous March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In some ways, we’ve come a long way: We have a cool Black president, minorities hold top positions and…
When I realized there was still a good 40 seconds of adrenaline-wrought torture left, I wondered if there was any way to stop the Coney Island Cyclone, to just hop out. I was done, but it wasn’t.
Trinidad likes its Carnival wild and wotless, its revelers unabashed and its partying nonstop. Carnival, or more accurately pronounced, cahneeval, translated loosely means a farewell to flesh, or meat.
New York City can render you insignificant in a matter of days. It’s not that I don’t love the idea of being here, because I do. But it bears zero resemblance to the Sex and the City dreaminess that I fantasized about. Those chicks never took the train…
When the candles are lit, the marigolds are strung and the money is out, Laxmi will come. It doesn’t matter that the candles are standard tea lights from the Dollar Tree down the street and not the copper…