Growing up in the ’80’s during the Cold War, the Red Scare, remnants of McCarthyism… and of course, the movie Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze, had anyone and everyone in...

Photos from morning runs: I always had a gym membership back at home in New York City and would mix up classes (spin, yoga, boot camp) with a day or...

Inevitably, when you’re country-hopping for months at a time and catching up on a country’s history (recent to antiquity) on the airplane ride to said country, you may not understand...

I can’t remember what my initial expectations were of Israel, but I was happily surprised at what we stumbled upon.  Instead of an endless desert with bombs going off left and...

Our guide in the Sahara desert, Mubarak, made a point about the cave nomads we visited: ‘They’re only happy because they don’t know any better. If they were educated, they...

As most of my family and friends know, I was in a major car accident in 1997, here in Paphos. I spent the following week in Nicosia (Cyprus’s capital), mainly...

I’m starting my Morocco Blog at the end of my stay here, as I leave the country.  The past 3 weeks have been a whirlwind.  The first 5 days in...