World Portraits: Deal or No Deal
Marrakesh, Morocco…By far the biggest challenge you’ll face in Marrakesh is a shopping trip, as the art of the deal is a way of life in Morocco. Everyone bargains, sometimes over tea or trinkets, and it’s only considered a satisfactory purchase after the bargain is settled upon. The usual practice with tourists is to ask […]
Love Notes from the Abyss
My cape needed cleaning so I stopped by the mailbox. There it was, the dinosaur of communications: a hand-written note. Yes snail mail, not an e-mail or a text–an enigmatic scribble that has spun my mind in a million directions. Hey, Mo-Mo. Remember when I came up with that nickname for you? Oh, I […]
