Alright, I admit I was a non-believer. When Bush won the 2004 elections after what I thought was a bad four years, I realized I did not understand America’s priorities. I wondered what the magic was to Bill Clinton’s victory in 1992, if the Lewinsky saga and his opinionated wife contributed to America’s distaste of […]
Iceland: Rags to Riches…to Rags?!
The most stunning news to me in the past 24 hours is the collapse of the financial system of Iceland and the likelihood for the country to declare bankruptcy. Not too long ago, the experts were marveling at how the past century chronicled a miraculous ascent to wealth and economic power for this tiny Scandinavian country […]
Day Trip to Ostia Antica
After 5 days in Rome, I decided to leave the city and see a different part of Italy. Alas time and my pocket-book would not permit a trip to Florence, Pompeii, nor Venice, so I decided to go to Ostia Antica, the harbour city of ancient Rome. Ostia Antica is a large archaeological and […]
Rome: Relics, Churches, and Gelato
When I got back to Rome after visiting Ostia Antica it was late afternoon. I spent the remaining daytime walking in and out of random churches. Everything was so awe-inspiring. I wished I had more time. My last full day in Rome was a Sunday. So I went to Mass at Santa Susanna, the American […]
Scavi Tour
Finally, the day of the tour that brought me to Rome had arrived. The Scavi Tour! I had planned to climb the Doumo of St. Peter’s Basilica before my Scavi Tour but that required waking up very early but I was spent and my butt muscles ached at the thought of climbing 300+ steps for […]
Borghese Gallery and Stumbling Upon Sights in Rome
After leaving the serene atmosphere of the Vatican necropolis, I joined the bustling crowds on earth above, cooled myself with gelato, and boarded the electric bus (116) to the Borghese Gallery. The bus passed through Campo de’Fiori and as I had enough time to spare before my reservation at Borghese, I got off the bus […]
Confession in Rome
“Father, it has been eleven years.” I had thought about going to confession in Rome but didn’t actually plan on doing it. I have been to confession only on 3 occasions – my Communion, my Confirmation, and another random time. I know being shy is not an excuse not to go to confession at least […]
America’s Moral Compass
I recently attended a lecture on the human rights violations at various US detention sites including Abu Ghraib and Guatanamo Bay. The speaker made it a point to say that these events marked the loss of America’s moral compass to the international world. I found the statement strange as I have never seen the United […]
Catastrophe In a Matter of a Week
Going on holidays is fantastic. But I can’t believe that I left the world alone for one week and came back to catastrophe. Lehman Brothers bankrupt, Merrill Lynch acquired by Bank of America, and the world of investing banking as we know it gone. Just like that. Now we are in a recession looming over […]
My Delta Airlines Nightmare
This stems back to my trip to Ghana in June 2008. The day we were to return to the US, there had been rains here in the States, meaning that the Delta flight was two hours late coming from JFK to Accra. The time was not made up on our flight from Accra to JFK. […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.