Why Don’t You? #118
Monday: Why don’t you have your DNA tested to see if you have anything in you that you never knew you had in you? I don’t mean a foreign object […]
Category Archives: travel
Midnight in Cairo
Let’s set the mood. To Egypt! I have always intended to write the story of my life in three volumes, each book telling the story of 33 year bits of my […]
THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #158
LOVE: Dammann Tea: I have spent years hunting for the perfect mint tea. I’m desperate for one that tastes just like the nectar they serve at the Grand Mosquée de […]
TURIN: I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
The first ten seconds of this are important for this post. It’ll make sense much later. The lady in the sandwich shop really intrigued me when she mentioned that Turin […]
THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #153
LOVE: Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars Season 2: I still remember the very first episode of Drag Race that I ever watched. It was season two. I was in […]
Why Don’t You? #112
Monday: Why don’t you start a savings account for a vacation home? (I’ve surely suggested this before, but I’m not willing to dive back into a hundred of these posts […]
THINGS I LOVED/HATED THIS WEEK #152
LOVE: Thanksgiving Break in California: Ever since I came back from my holiday abroad, I’ve been frugal. I have been budgeting and buying the very minimum. I want to rebuild […]
TURIN: Let the Rain Come Down
MANDATORY HILARY DUFF INTERLUDE: This will make sense later on. ***** I can’t say that I really felt any better the next day. This was a constant problem of mine […]
TURIN: Tempermental
“It turns out that many places in Italy are closed on Mondays or have very limited hours. As a person who is genuinely quite lazy, I found this a charming practice. But as a gloomy man looking for a few hours of meditative peace, I found it irksome in the extreme.”
PARIS: Coincidences
Jessica was still feeling ill from whatever cold I had contracted and passed along to her, so I let her stay guilt-free in the apartment. After the stresses and strains […]
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