Vietnam has no traffic lights, no stop signs and no traffic cops. As you can see from this photo taken last year in Hanoi at night the traffic is snaking along the streets without the aid of any signals. At…
TRAFFIC IN VIETNAM
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I'm an award-winning author who lives and writes in New York City. I'm also an avid photographer that drags not only my laptop, but also my Nikon where ever I go. I have an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. Most of my work life has been in the mental health field, though for the last 10 years devoteI have devoted myself to writing fulltime and taking photographs.
IT’S APPLE PICKING TIME IN NEW YORK
Apples, native to Europe and West Asia, were introduced to North America in the 17th Century. There are approximately 7000 varieties of apples in the world today but only 100 are grown commercially, with an estimated one billion pounds of…
COAL WAITING TO BE SHIPPED ALONG THE YANGTZE RIVER
I read a story in the news some weeks ago about two brothers in China who had survived a coalmine disaster. They had been buried for nearly six days and dug their way out using a pick and their hands.…
LOTUS FOOT
I didn’t know what to expect when it came to shoes in China. The black cloth Mary Jane shoes were the first footwear that came to mind when I thought of this country. But there’s so much to see when…
STEAM PIPE BURST YESTERDAY ON LEXINGTON AND 42nd ST.
It was all over the news, “burst steam pipe, rush hour on 42nd Street and Lexington Ave.” A terrible thing to happen, the worst hour of the day and one of the busiest sections of the city. This morning I…
CI QI KOU, AN OLD STREET IN CONGQING, CHINA
One of our stops in China was in Chongqing, a city with a population of 6 million people. The city was spread out and we drove for miles in the city proper and everywhere we went there was either a…
This is a test.
I want to see if I can have writing between the pictures. So far I have not been able to figure out how to do this. Be patient with me. I’ll get this thing working for me soon. But you…
SHENNONG STREAM
One of the side trips we took while traveling along the Yangtze River was to a place called Shennong Stream. No one on the tour really had any idea what to expect when we got there. A sampan ride through…
LADIES ROOMS IN THE FAR EAST
Not mentioned very often (or ever) in articles about the Far East are the toilets in the ladies rooms in Japan, Vietman, Cambodia and in China. What you often find in the hand washing areas are either quite common sinks…