Mosi-oa-Tunya means: the smoke that thunders. It’s an appropriate name for what the British named Victoria Falls, the largest curtain of water in the world, a mile-wide cataract in the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe. My father spoke of it when I was a little girl. He told me one day, I should feast …
I will start my southern Africa journey here, at the Slave Lodge in Cape Town. It is not where I physically began my 10-day trip to this part of the world. But it is where I choose to begin — in a place of beginnings and endings, of hate and love, of breathtaking natural landscapes …
Five years ago, a tropical depression formed in the Atlantic and began moving towards Florida. Later, it would become one of the worst hurricanes to hit the United States. Katrina. On the day that the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast, my friend and colleague left Baghdad to return home. I watched her drive off into …
This Sunday, I will be watching the premiere of “Aarti Party.” Aarti Sequeira won this season’s “The Next Food Network Star” on Sunday night. A lot of us at CNN were rooting for her — she worked as a producer in the Los Angeles bureau for a while. And, we felt, she was the most …
I have been pondering the purchase of a new car an have seriously been thinking about a Toyota Prius. It’s hard to give up 51 miles per gallon. Toyota hasn’t won me over completely yet. But this shot in Toronto could make a convincing ad. The CN tower is so beautiful at night and next …
Every four years, when the world crowns a new football champion, I root for Brazil. I grew up a being a Brazil fan — my father told me Pele was the greatest athlete ever. As I grew older I wondered why my homeland wasn’t able to field a team to play in the World Cup. …
I refrained from posting this on Mother’s Day out of respect for all my friends who are mothers and for all my friends who still have mothers. But Mother’s Day is tough. Very tough. Nine years ago, my mother died. May 19, 2001. A few months before 9/11. It became a year that everyone remembers …
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