Rice is Madagascar’s main staple crop, eaten at nearly every meal. Dista rice, which is cultivated in the Toamasina province near Lake Alaotra, is named after the farmer who discovered it. The rice, a pale pink...
Are you a “T” executive? I was recently speaking with my friend John Shiple and he told me I was a “T” executive. Someone who had vast cross-functional knowledge, but also deep subject matter expertise....
I first heard Wendy Beckerman when I began attending the Bay Area Songwriter's Exchange, which she co-founded. A New Jersey native and veteran of New York's rich and fabled Greenwich Village folk scene, Wendy...
I’ve written a lot about how corporate America uses social media for improving the bottom-line and transforming their business. This post is about how Hollywood and famous night clubs use social media. I got to...
What Makenaide and You’ll Never Walk Alone have in common, and why Japanese people like the former song
On 11th March, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0, the biggest in Japan’s history, struck Tohoku region, north-east of...
I sat on the couch and my stomach grumbled wondering why in the hell I hadn’t given it anything but a thin piece of bread, oil, thyme and an abundance of coffee for the last...
Cape Point is a rather large national park and it’s best to spend at least a few hours exploring it, if not a day or two. We recently spent a Monday morning walking up to...
A Meeting With the Ladies of San Pablo Etla...
The people I know in the small villages down the back roads where we work in Oaxaca and Chiapas are truly the heart of Mexico…They are the...
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