Summer Postcards 2012
My Roman Holiday
The perceptions of Rome that I had as a child came more from films than within classroom walls.
Foreigners in Ethiopia
“Forengi” is the word for “foreigner” here, something I learned when I heard a few locals say it to me on the streets of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It’s not an insult; the people are merely pointing out that I look different, and I am indeed from another country.
Sitting in the Ladies Car is a Privilege
Unlike the rest of the cars in the New Delhi metro, the ladies car is tidy, uncrowded, and quiet. The air conditioning mingles smells of freshly ironed fabrics and soft perfumes.
Monkey Business
Immediately the monkeys descended, swarms and stampedes of monkeys from a hundred yards away came barreling towards us; running full-speed, thrashing, ripping, tearing my scarf from my neck.
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A street view of St. Peter's Basilica, the famed Renaissance church located within the walls of Vatican City, late at night.
Salsa Night in Anatolia
We stay home in the sleepy heat of midday and go out as the air cools in the evening to buy Ramadan pita, eating it before it gets humidity-sweaty, not waiting for Iftar, butter on our hands.
