This weekend was the annual free Museum Walk in the beautiful Dupont-Kalorama neighbourhoods of DC. The festival is sponsored by the Dupont-Kalorama Museums Consortium (DKMC) to promote these “off the Mall” museums. Of the 7 unique museums I was able to visit 4. At each site, there were tours, hands-on activities, and music. Dupont Circle […]
Brief Sojourn in Washington D.C
I had a bad week last week. All job-related. I started out the year singing “Let It Go” and failed to heed the wisdom in that simple phrase. By the end of the week, I was ready to escape. So here I am in the nation’s capital, Washington, D.C., trying my very best not to […]
A Late Afternoon at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
I went to Philadelphia to browse the Paul Strand: A Master of Photography exhibition. It was a cold winter day. I took these pictures as I was leaving, the sun already beginning to set and casting colour into the sky. This is the Ben Franklin Parkway and the Philadelphia skyline as seen from the top […]
Paul Strand’s Portrait of Ghana at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
If I were into photography, I would know who Paul Strand was. But, I’m not, and I didn’t, not until now. It took a Groupon for reduced admission at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for me to discover that there was such a man as Paul Strand, and that for several months in the early […]
Lincoln Everywhere We Go
One of the tourist attractions my Belgian cousins were interested in was the Lincoln Memorial. That necessitated a trip to Washington DC where I got to play tourist as well. I, however, did not expect to come across so much history related to Mr. Abraham Lincoln. It actually was quite neat, trying to recall my […]
24 hours in Washington D.C.
My Belgian cousins who are in their early 20s are visiting the United States for the very first time. They wanted to see the Lincoln Memorial and the United States Constitution, thus a trip to D.C. was born. We drove from New York to Washington D.C. with the plan to arrive around noon. By the […]
Exploring De Oude Kerk in Amsterdam
The Oude Kerk (Old Church) is the oldest surviving building in Amsterdam. Part of my fascination with it is that it’s right next to De Wallen, home to the Red Light District. It seems to me that that area has always been derelict. The church was consecrated in 1306 as Saint Nicholas Church, with Saint […]
Black in Amsterdam
Isaac Israel. Portrait of a Wounded Soldier (1882) Rijksmuseum. Depicts a Belanda Hitam (Zwarte Hollander) originally from Elmina, Ghana When I was deciding on a European break this summer, I purposely decided against Barcelona or any other locale that I envisioned I could be mistaken for a prostitute simply on the basis of my dark […]
Exploring the Arts in Amsterdam
Collage of holdings at the Rijksmuseum I’m not much of an art connoisseur but my sister N’ku was hell bent on seeing iconic Dutch paintings. She was rattling off names like Vermeer and “Night Watch” and I felt like I must have missed some part of vital education somewhere along the line. I mean since […]
48 hours in Chicago
I spent the Cinco de Mayo weekend in Chicago visiting a friend who was visiting the United States from Ghana. It was a short but sweet visit. I caught a bit of a Mexican heritage show Stumbled upon a Polish parade Captured Genghis Khan at the Field Museum of Natural History making use of several […]
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.