Sometimes you just shouldn’t taunt Mother Nature. Last week I glibly wrote to someone that we Los Angelenos don’t even roll out of bed for any earthquake weaker than a 4.5. Fast forward to Friday around 9pm, when I was in the middle of preparing for a big event the morning after, the plantation shutters in my living room began …
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Wooden Music Box
This will be brief. My email box was swamped with requests from readers about the little robot I got from Taiwan so I’m posting more photos with info about it so that you can look for your own special music box online, but if you pass through the Taipei International Airport, you should be able to find them prominently displayed …
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Collier De Chien
So I’m in Taipei, deciphering my fortune cookie messages (wondering if that means one of my successful work projects will take me finally to base camp at Mount Everest!). And all I have to show for Taipei are these photos: Aren’t those cool wooden music boxes? Love the ones with the Eiffel Tower and ballerinas on a carousel but I …
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Isn’t It Always Tea Time Somewhere?
One of my favorite man-built places in the world is the colonial-style Raffles Hotel in Singapore. If I could model my dream house after anything it would be this place, with the long wrap-around porch and romantic courtyard. What a backdrop this place is for any kind of photography! I’m not one to sit still for more than a few …
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National Mosque of Malaysia
Of all the mosques that I encountered on my trips through Morocco, not once did I get an opportunity to enter one for one reason or another. But here on this trip to Malaysia, where Islam is the official and largest religion, I hope to finally be allowed entry. So SL and I hop into her car and make our …
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