Early November and gorgeous autumn is going strong. Daylight Savings is over and the sun slants in like a spotlight between 3:00 and 4:00. Every splotch of butterscotch, sienna, magenta takes another curtain call. Painters take note…. France? Or Boston? Inspiration for Jackson Pollock? Inspiration for Mark Rothko? Inspiration for Read More
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Provincetown: New England Summers
As much as I’ve traveled, there’s no place like gorgeous New England clinging to its coastline of rocks, coves, safe harbors, islands, sandy spits, dunes, marshes, glacier ponds. Why go anywhere else in the summer? I’ve been hanging out in Provincetown at the very end of the long arm Read More
Taiwan: Parting Thoughts.
Guest Blog Post by Judith L. Katz We are now in the air, having escaped the grey clouds of Typhoon Goni swirling around Taipei. Our final day in Taiwan was a delight for the senses–a fabulous lunch of soup dumplings at Michelin-rated Din Tai Fung, delicate Li Shan tea Read More
Taiwan to the Mainland: Across the Straits. (Another Typhoon?)
Guest Blog Post by Judith L Katz. Jinmen, the Cold War, and Cross-Strait Relations: In a wrinkle of history, when the Nationalists retreated to Taiwan in the closing days of China’s civil war (1949), they held on to the small island of Jinmen, a stone’s throw from the Chinese mainland Read More
Taiwan: “Let’s Eat!”
Guest Blog Post by Judith L. Katz “There is so much to eat here,” proclaimed the cab driver as he transported us away from the night market in Tainan – Taiwan’s ancient capital. This particular night market is a multi-acre maze of pop-up booths offering fried food, sugar-coated fruit Read More
Travels to Taiwan on the Tail of a Typhoon
Guest Blog Post by Judith L. Katz Typhoon Soudelor swept across Taiwan on August 7 as one of the strongest recorded, with over 50 inches of rain in some locations and wind gusts well over 100 mph. Here in the capital city of Taipei, much of the damage was related to Read More
Great Books to Read While Traveling
Reading and traveling – does it get any better? These books have kept me company on long flights and sleepless nights, on the beach and in shabby hotels with bad lighting. Some are fun – even hilarious, some are great adventures, some are historical companions. Most of these are Read More
Sicily: Ortygia
The sculpted faces in the glass cases in the archeological museum in Siracusa are a parade of Athenas, Minervas, Madonnas – seamlessly slipping from Greek to Roman to early Christian. But a significant difference is the proud straight-on view of the Greek and Roman goddess morphing to the Read More
Rome: Nature and Nurture
Mass on Pentecost Sunday at the Pantheon ends with a shower of red rose petals fluttering down from the oculus, the open “eye” in the center of the massive dome, thrown by the basketful by intrepid firemen hanging from ropes. Seating for Mass is by reservation only and a huge Read More
Rome: Saints and Sinners
Is there a theme here? Rome — Corporate headquarters for Christianity Inc., RC. All things WILL pass. Whatever you are doing here — eating succulent lamb chops, poking through tiny, jewel-like shops, admiring the ochre and pink buildings, being wowed by marble choreography, deciphering frescoes, trying to figure out Read More