Sagira Ansari sits on a dusty sack outside her uneven brick home in this poor town in eastern India, her legs folded beneath her. She cracks her knuckles, then rubs charcoal ash between her palms.
AHA Chef Bambi shows how to prepare and cook Blackened Chicken Skewers with Chili Con Carne.
When Ballet David Campos of Barcelona performs at the Cultural Center of the Philippines on March 22-25, it will not just be a dazzling interpretation of two ballet favorites, it will be a celebration of excellence of both Filipino and Spanish artists who will be headlining the performances of “Giselle” and “The Sleeping Beauty.”
My stylish friend, Cecille Zamora van Straten, dropped by, all in black, as usual, in the most dangerous boots ever. She was bearing a gift in a big palo china box. It’s a doll! she announced, beaming proudly. It’s my dad’s birthday and I bought him a doll so I got one for you, too.
I was a victim of date rape in college when I was 17 years old. I was so drunk I don’t even remember what happened. I just knew the beast who cornered me the whole evening was the married brother of my dorm mate. To hide my pregnancy from my parents, I asked to go to the province of my mother in the south and stay with my favorite aunt and “get to know life,” I said. I was a problem child, and they were only too glad to let me go. We’re five siblings; I am the only girl and the most spoiled.
In a gentrified section of Shanghai, we were about to begin our tour of the restored 1930s house—now a living museum open to the public—when Carlson Chan espied one of the artifacts on display. It was a wooden chamber pot. He pointed it out to us. We gathered around it, curious about this remnant of China’s pre-Communist past.
It is often said that your children will always surprise you, and I only realized how true it was when my second son Jason married the love of his life, Nikki Boncan. It truly was a wedding of surprises.
There are challenges in life that once met, transform us into more fulfilled and complete beings. One such task is running a full, 42K marathon.
There’s a Chinese proverb that says: “A family with an old person has a living treasure of gold.” I wonder how many believe that. Not that I have illusions of being a treasure, or even becoming one. But it would be nice, wouldn’t it? To be held in high regard is among life’s loftiest aspirations, right alongside the fervent desire to be respected, loved and, yes, needed.
In his second book, “Heroic Living,” Chris Lowney bridges the gap between our lofty vision and mission and the practical day-to-day steps we must take to make the vision and mission a reality in our daily lives.
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