One of the hightlights of my November 2008 trip to Japan (read more here), was to experience being dressed in a stunningly beautiful silk kimono that belongs to my hostess…

“What would you ask a geisha, if you had the chance to interview one?” Fukiko asked me the question, and I passed it on to AWR community members in November,…

So, I’ve been living in Dubai for three years now and I’m trying to tie a lot of my New Year’s Resolutions into things in Dubai that I’ve not done….

I was a bit disappointed to find as I researched my two last blog entries (How High is High in Dubai? 818 metres ! and Talking Towers – Who’s on…

AWR member Wanda (who lives in Calgary and recently posted a loving story about her amazing sister Judy O’Sullivan), sent me the pictures that sparked Firday’s blog entry on the…

There’s something frightening, to me at least, about Dubai’s latest construction marvel, the world’s tallest tower, as it inches ever closer to heaven, just a kilometer or two from where…

Today is my birthday. Well, okay, today isn’t EXACTLY my birthday, because when you write something for publication, wherever it might be, there’s usually a delay between the time you…

The other day I started talking about Dubai traffic, and somehow ended up on Recession Road. It’s time to backtrack. And this time, in the end, we’ll end up on…

Unlike the facebook ‘friend’ who wanted to kill me last week, this week another friend, Amr Salem, who also happens to be an AWR member, sent me a video (called…

Susan notes: AWR member Mary Wagner was the second amazing woman to contribute to AWR way back in the autumn, shortly after it first launched. She told the story behind…