When A Florida Gator Meets Louisiana Bayou
After two and half months of living at home with my parents while job hunting and freelancing for The Gainesville Sun, I finally got some...
How A Seminary Struggles Amid Commercialized Spirituality
Just below the Tian Tan Buddha sits the Po Lin Monastery, originally established by three monks in 1924. Po Lin refers to “precious...
Seeking the Buddha’s Blessings
Since the guided tour on Day 2 proved to be so informative and productive, I opted for a tour on Day 3 as well, this time to Lantau island,...
City Upon the Sea: Hong Kong
My Splendid Tour guide for the afternoon was a bubbly young woman named Ivy. Speaking to a group of blank faces as the bus wormed through...
Black and white and read all over
Flickr photo by Matt Callow So everyone’s naturally been asking what’s different about journalism in India than here in...
Worth a thousand words?
I’ve picked up a lot of new terms here in India: biodata, visiting card, “good name” (meaning first name),...