On a recent Sunday Morning segment on CBS, they featured a story about the Hindu celebration, Maha Kumbh Mela, which is a spiritual cleansing festival that takes place every 12 years in Hardiwar, India. From what I gathered, it is an opportunity for the faithful to cleanse themselves at this particular point in the Ganges where, during an ancient battle among the...

…because it’s still just a dream until you have your ticket. I got my Golden Ticket, only mine came by way of Expedia. It was a bit of a debacle. Kayak was my go-to, but they didn’t have any good deals, so I migrated to Priceline where I found unbelievable flight prices. However, after trying to purchase 6 different flights and having each of them all...

On the day of my “revelation”, my mother was still in Haiti. She was there with her disaster relief organization, Allies for Trauma Relief (AFTR), working alongside the Yayasan Bumi Sehat birthing clinic (headquartered in Bali) to set up a new permanent birthing clinic in Jacmel. She’d been working with the YBS clinic in Bali since 2006, but the Jacmel clinic...

There I was, sitting with two girlfriends at a trendy boutique restaurant in the South End where all the servers wear pajamas to serve Sunday brunch. Renatta had just broken up with her boyfriend of 5 years, so Cathleen and I were there as moral support. The conversation gradually led to other things, like that both of them had new men, Renatta was doing really well...