(i.e. the last one, the one that ended like 7 months ago) So.. I may have jinxed myself with my last travel blog (the one where I finally visited Canada) and talking about putting up a post within a month. At this point in time, I have visited THREE more countries, two new places in the USA, and there are no signs on the horizon for even edited travel pictures, forget a full blown blog …
Category: Living in USA!
2017 was perhaps the most amazing year of my life, and I could not have asked for a better note to end my twenties on. When I made my 30 before 30 several years ago, I put all sorts of big and small things on it. I couldn’t say for sure if I would actually cross off any, I only knew then that turning 30 was supposed to be this ~big deal~, an event to …
Of all the things I thought I would inherit from my mother, I never imagined it would end up being her fondness of cultivating a garden. Last year, in a fit of sentimentality, I got home a Tulsi plant (ocimum tenuiflorum or the holy basil) because I missed home. For as long as I can remember, my mother had always had a tulsi around. I kept that plant (barely) alive for a few months before …
I read about the Manhattanhenge, or the Manhattan Solstice, many years ago. Twice a year the setting sun aligns with the streets of Manhattan, spilling the streets with an ethereal golden light, and hundreds of people gather to photograph this light phenomena. The name of this modern day event, comes from the Stonehenge, an English monument from ~3000 BC, where the setting sun aligned with the stone structure on the summer and the winter solstice. Living …
My first spring in New York City was colorful. We spent a sunny afternoon among tulips of the brightest and prettiest colors I have ever seen at West Side Community Garden’s Tulip Festival 2016. Then we strolled over to Central Park to catch some delicate little lavender and white cherry blossoms. I did not expect to feel as homesick as I have in these last few days, but I guess endless white winter can do that you. The flowers helped. Everything looked …
A few days ago, I found a Facebook listing for what sounded like the whackiest event. I read on more, and discovered that its a global day of sun (and stress-relief I assume?). April 2nd, is apparently the International Pillow Fight Day! 😛 New York City being no stranger to well, strange and exciting things, was hosting one of these pillow fights of its own. I had no idea this was even a thing, and I was …