Category: Blog
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Across Two Seas to the Burren, Ireland (Originally published in Otherwise Ireland)

☘️ ☘️ ☘️ When I first set foot on Burren National Park, the lack of artificial structures stunned me. It looked liked a wild land, an open space that looks forgotten; but in fact it is very busy living and growing, doing what nature does. During the past decade living in the United States, I…
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Viva L’Aldjerie/ Viva Algeria (2004) 阿爾及利亞女人們的故事

我沒事哪會去看關於阿爾及利亞的電影? 電影從女主角 Goucem 開始,揭開三位回教社會同住一棟旅店公寓的單身女人的生活:與醫生有地下戀情的 Goucem、年華老去的舞者母親(當年藝名 Papicha)、以及他們的鄰居妓女 Fifi。
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Thinking of Irish Coffee in a San Francisco Bar
Irish coffee and Guinness look a little similar: white foam on top, dark brown liquid in the bottom. Ireland answers my—and I would think everyone else’s!—desire for creamy diary and fragrant “water of life” in one offering. Sitting in one of my favorite bar in San Francisco, sipping on the lukewarm, flatter version of Irish…