The very best quality tea rooms on Manhattan are scarce. In this hotbed of competitiveness the real deal is often leapt over by gimmicky phrases echoing current trends. Until recently, […]
There are more than 600 varieties of strawberries and they are botanically not berries at all, while eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are berries, gotcha! The sheer diversity popping around me […]
Poetry does not have to be written under your bed covers (well, sometimes I do that too) or in a rusty, with vintage posters laced bohemian poetic Marais hang out. […]
Dear note, rhythm, vibe of the instruments that raise me high — Music, You are my savior, the pill without side effects, the rush of love without pain, the family […]
I assembled a shortlist of my favorite herbal infusions by continent and in some by country of popularity. Most disseminated around as trade shipped these local traditions over the vast […]
I want to challenge your concept of a home. Home is a soulful feeling, an expansion of one’s heart in place and time, beyond the doors, walls and anything that […]
I have practiced ikebana for eight years now. Starting at my first apartment in the Mediterranean, well before traveling to Japan, I adopted my own, personal style. As a creative […]
Solitude is not just for the introverts as we have been pushed into it involuntarily in 2020. The first wave of enforced social distancing was not enough for us to […]
Healthy eating, rejuvenating beverages, spa, fitness and psychological wellness allure longevity seekers. I am a hedonist, loving life, great food and wine, yet following the Hippocratic premise that “a dose […]
Feeling, emotions and communication are not just human and some higher animal distinctions, trees do have something like a nervous system and so they react and talk. In The Hidden […]