She told me to look French (I can do that) and told her: “We had reservations across the street, my friend Aida is French from Lyon and she told me how much this place reminded her of her birthplace, we have to be here” (as I am looking very French). The lady tells us again...
She told me to look French (I can do that) and told her: “We had reservations across the street, my friend Aida is French from Lyon and she told me how much this place reminded her of her birthplace, we have to be here” (as I am looking very French). The lady tells us again...
Seneca, the great Roman stotic philosopher, when forced to commit suicide by Emperor Nero, comforted his family, telling them, “Why cry over parts of life when the whole it calls for tears?” His words are just as sage now as they were back then. We tend to think of our momentary ...
All Blues Company:This Leeds-based menswear boutique is like a time machine; it instantly transports you back to 2010, when it was possible to buy high-quality menswear for less than the price of college tuition. Mano Dridi, the affable director behind the store, once told me that he was ...
I grabbed hold and it brought me up out of the water and pulled me toward the city of angels. Skies burn brighter in the west Starting Over I spent most of this year in this transition from where-in-the-world-is-sandy to back-in-the-game-sandy. But I vowed that this time, I ...
Hall, Stuart 1996. Introduction: Who needs “identity”? In Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay (eds.), Questions of cultural identity, 1–17. London: Sage.10.4135/9781446221907.n1Search in Google Scholar Hall, Stuart 1997. The spectacle of the “other”. In Stuart Hall (ed.), Representation: Cul...
Gambling personifies the Shakespearean twist of the racetrack. High rollers and drugstore cowboys wager to win. Some men walk out with a grocery cart of recycled cans; some walk out with enough money to buy a racehorse. They leave by the same gate, and the next day, they return for more...
My father made a deal with me that he would match whatever I could come up with to buy my fir st car.From the time I wa s a saver.My allowance, back in tho se day s, wa s twenty five cent s a week.I grew up on a farm near a small town called Ventura.In tho se day s...
Talk over tea: what food to attempt to buy online today, as there were many empty shelves at local Stop N’ Shop this morning. LH: grey, cloudy skies, late morning just before lunch, small mug from the back of the cupboard, last of the sencha. Day 5 is a day of escapist day...
The final session of the event got the property managers sharing their experience about how they built their career in Cincinnati,Ohio. Some of the speeches were downright funny while others spoke with the wisdom that can only come from a sage. The question and answer session gave the participa...