After a couple of days in noisy Kathmandu, it’s exciting to get out to the mountains, whether you go in a rickety bus for the eight-hour-long journey along bumpy roads, or fly in an eight-seater plane and wonder where you are going to land (until a landing strip suddenly appears on the side of a…
by Kirstine Fratz Whoever said that the Germans don’t know how to party should be in Germany now. We are hosting the soccer world championship at the moment and the world is our guest. Here in Hamburg one of the biggest adventures is to go to the main station. People from everywhere, wrapped in their…
All of us know at least one female friend who has the money to splurge on a whole wardrobe of the latest designer clothing every season. However, most of us can only gaze with green-eyed envy. The alternative to staying trendy every season without burning a hole in your pocket is StarletCloset.com. StarletCloset is the…
by Jackie Sanders I am 40. You’d never know it if you looked inside my soul. You’d think I was 23, maybe 26 at the most. No, the only giveaway is my face, my body. The changes don’t happen all at once, they’re gradual, hardly noticeable, until all of a sudden, they’re very noticeable. I…
by Wanda Medina In the heart of Soho, trendy designer boutiques and chicer-than-thou restaurants line blocks of cobblestone city streets, where a pulsating nightlife and bar scene keeps local and visiting hipsters, fashionistas and artists in festive spirits well past dawn. Slender, model-like women stroll in and out of shops accompanied by equally stunning men…
But the life of a news Diva isn’t all glam. It is rather more akin to that of the persevering fictional newswoman Mary Richards (AKA Mary Tyler Moore)—a Diva in her own right– who struck out independently and paid her dues. In real life, Moore received several Emmy’s for her role. Many of the brilliant…
by Esperanza Elena Rodriguez Searching for Self on I-5 This was all new to me: being alone, without a husband. I was 38 years old and what I thought would last forever did not. I found myself single and felt as though I had no identity of my very own. For the past twenty years,…