You don’t need to be Peruvian or to live in Peru to feel ashamed about the political shenanigans happening in that beautiful country; not...

Five months into pandemic and the dogs started to behave like cats eating only when they felt like it. They'd eat from the table and...

No two generations share the same cool. My parent´s generation was defined by the two- Martini lunch. Mine had “Hair” (the musical but...

I heard Obama before I ever saw him. It was 2007 and I was getting dressed while half listening to Fareed Zakarias’ interview on CNN....

Not all mad Englishmen sailed to conquer Antarctica; some set off to climb Everest, “because it’s there”. George Mallory made such an...

“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful,...

Legend has it that when the great mountain climber George Mallory was asked why he wanted to climb Everest, he replied: “Because it’s...

In the spirit of trying to clear the crowded information highway, (bumper to bumper with chats, Zoom, Factime, Skype, youtube, Webinar,...

Someone comes up and says “I’ve got good and bad news, which do you want first?” My money is on good news. People feel they’ll handle bad...

In the Sixties the Pope of Pop predicted that “in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes”. He was not mistaken. The body...

My first trial failed miserably, a total beginners flop. Right after buying a lovely country house deep in the heart of France two things...

I saw “ART” in Paris when it premiered back in 1994, with the original French cast. It then went around the world and played to packed...

A couple of minutes into the film –a story about group of friends going on holiday- and already two dozen kisses have been exchanged. On...

What if the big post pandemic question is not how we come out financially but how it affects our brains? Recently the question is popping...

Saw your post the other day. Guess you thought you know a lot about dogs, hein? I got news. We're all different. It's got nothing to do...

I’d forgotten the name Amadou Diallo. Twenty years is a long time. In 1999 Amadou was gunned down on the doorstep of his house in the...

Way before we had social media, even before we had The Ugly Bunch, you could destroy a life with a juicy-penned story in poisoned ink....

(As an exception this post is not a column does not offer an opinion or even tries to teach something new. This post is for those who...

2Q20 results are in and they are dismal. Notice that I am being polite. Actually they are akin to stepping into a nightmare, the type...

Truman Capote was the bad boy of good literature in the twentieth century. One of those people who invented their lives because the ones...