“I’ve got something for your protection”, M. told me. “Come to my room… “ I eyed him skeptically. But hey, following a guy to his room… I was under a dark sky, early, early morning in Roatan, an island off the Caribbean coastline of Honduras. “Por que não?” (Why not?). I was wondering if I …
“You see that girl? She dyed her hair for this trip. And that one? I guarantee she bought those shoes specifically for Las Vegas.” Julia* sipped her coffee as she eyed the people riding the elevator from the entrance of Mandalay Bay up to the concourse that connected the resort to Luxor, one of the …
My life turned upside down in December of 2008. I finished graduate school on a high note and I should have been happy but I wasn’t. No job awaited me, the economy had tanked and all I received for the next few months were letters of rejection, one after the other. I had a BA …
47B. That’s me. Aisle seat. On a 17-hour flight, I made sure to take an aisle seat. I was flying from LA to Bangkok and was seated next to a short 50-ish Indian man wearing bright yellow Bermuda shorts. His eyes sparkled behind big gold-rimmed specs and his moustache stretched across his face as he …
Grace had been crying since we arrived in Iceland. The wind stung her eyes; she was cold and it was gloomy. Her stuffed cat Gretzky kept getting blown out of her hands. Even though we’d bought her a blue fleece balaclava within an hour of checking into our hotel, she still objected every time we …