The only state not located in North America, Hawaii is a bit like the one family member who escaped a small hometown and became famous. What other state’s name is uttered like a sigh of pleasure? Go ahead, try saying … Read More
Ever since its admission to the United States in 1959, Hawaii has been synonymous with paradise in the American imagination. … Read More
One of the many revelations within Barbara’s Demick’s “Nothing to Envy” (2009), Demick’s award-winning riveting account of quotidian life in North Korea, concerned the 160-mile border between North and South Korea, a narrow demilitarized zone untouched by global changes of … Read More
What dinner isn’t better with a bottle of wine? As Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda, wrote, “I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.” As with all true oenophiles, Neruda knew … Read More
What dinner isn’t better with a bottle of wine? As Chile’s Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda, wrote, “I like on the table, when we’re speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine.” … Read More
We once had an elderly friend who made the first of his many visits to China way back in 1939 – and who routinely, repeatedly, shared with us that “once you see China, once you have visited the culture, your … Read More
Seeing is believing, as the Portuguese explorers determined in 1544 – and their first sighting of Taiwan caused them to re-christen the island “Formosa” for “beautiful island.” … Read More
Copenhagen regularly appears on the indices of the world’s most livable cities, which is certainly connected to the fact that nine in ten Danish adults own – and ride – a bicycle. … Read More
