We arrived to find the place heaving with people – as usual – and after ordering drinks and some food in the packed-to-the-walls bar we grabbed chairs outside and glowered at the cloud, which was completely covering the sky, checking-in on the progress of the eclipse via a live vide...
grabbed my lantern and went back out. Nothing. I was beside myself with sadness. I laid down, but couldn’t fall asleep. Rosa Parks has been with me for most
, then walked to the hotel where I grabbed a quick shower in my epic bowl-shaped tub with a rain shower in the biggest, technically shower stall ever before the big dinner, replete with appetizers and bubbly outside, then a 6-course meal with 12 wines to taste, all recipients of the ...
Sage has yet to really say her first intelligible word, although she has a continuous babbling conversation going throughout the day, but she has several signs that she is using daily: help (her current favorite which really means “I want this”), please, food, more, water, dog, and al...
Chu Qiao took his robe for him, Zhuge Yue grabbed her wrist, solemnly look at her and said: “You do not have to do that.” Chu Qiao slightly surprised for a moment, maybe because she used to do it with Yan Xun he asked her to do it for so many years, she has been doing thes...
Voila! At the end of the show everyone lined up and grabbed a praline (the pralines he offered to us had been prepared earlier, to allow them to solidify properly). Belgium is famed for its chocolates. And, I’m pleased to say, the chocolatier’s creations didn’t let his nation down...
Within a few more days the first deaths were reported. Another New Scientist article described how six people were now reported to have died. But what grabbed my attention more was that 15 healthcare workers were amongst the 60 new cases, which meantthis new disease spread easily from human ...
Those who had considered themselves to be God’s “Chosen People” must have felt they’d been grabbed by the neck like a chicken with taxes wrung out to the last shekel or denarius. And we grumble and complain about “hard times” and bad times and downturns in our economy and a ...
My father followed. Every part of the cat except its tail was concealed by the flap of fabric at the base of the sofa. He sat on his haunches, waiting. The tail gave a sudden, spastic twitch. My father grabbed it. “Tail!” he said. “Taaaiiiiilllll!!” ...
The title of the talk grabbed attention, the pitch was short and to the point. She got a big round of applause. Was it hard to capsulize the length, breadth and mission of an international non profit in just 120 seconds? “No”, says Hedin. “I just picked a piece of the puzzle...