Today I spent about 1 hour with a wonderful calligraphy teacher in Chinatown.  His name is James Koh and he is a master painter and Chinese calligrapher.  He began our lesson by explaining to me the importance of the bamboo brush with camel hair.  The art of calligraphy is learned over decades and is dependent …

After an epic travel day of 31+ hours the lack of sleep finally caught up with me. I woke up today (Sunday morning) at 6:30AM after only 2.5 hours of sleep. I decided I was going to “will” myself back to sleep for two more hours and then get up and going for a free …

Upon leaving Raleigh on Friday morning I started my iphone’s stop-watch feature to see exactly how long it would take me to get from RDU International airport to the M Hotel I am staying at in Singapore. (BTW, this is a trick I learned from my awesome husband, Eric) When I opened the door to …