Yesterday evening, I gave a presentation at the “University of San Francisco Center for Global Education (www.usfca.edu/acadserv/academic/services/abroad/index.html) about my books, Travel Happy, Budget Low (www.kaleidomundi.com/travel-happy-budget-low) and Language is Music: (www.kaleidomundi.com/language-is-music).
After spending months writing the books, working with the graphic designer to get them printed and strategizing on marketing, it was invigorating to make my [...]

Like many people around the world, I was glued to the TV last week watching the Mumbai terror attacks. My family was ready to eat Thanksgiving dinner and we delayed for about 15-20 minutes as we sat in silence watching the BBC reports from the Oberoi, Taj Majal hotel and other attacked areas in Mumbai. [...]

I am wrestling with a fundamental aspect about me which I am not willing to completely accept. The more I resist, the harder it gets and the more the universe keeps pushing into my face, as much as I hate it. I am a healer. No, I have no MD by my name or other [...]

I like to tell people that I am am author, but I have barely written a thing in a long time because I’ve been a project manager, orchestrating the printing and distribution of the review copies of my books.
Yesterday, my friends came over to stuff 74 envelopes with two books to send out to [...]

I am in a furor right now over Kaiser’s mismanagement of my dad. He currently sees in double. Two weeks ago, he was the one-eyed monster. I wrote two complaint letters to Kaiser, one of 7 pages, the other screamed my frustration in 3 pages. I think I was a doctor and lawyer in past [...]

The rain was pounding. I was lost. The signs were barely visible. I thought of turning back. But, I knew that the election was ours to win and my minor detail of being lost in the storm was not enough of a reason to go home. I drove around for at least 30 minutes until [...]

Why did two of my friends send me text messages at 2am on Saturday and interrupt my attempt to fall asleep? Why do people call me all the time for help? Why do people just naturally open up to me and reveal their secrets and problems?
I am not 1-800-dial-a-shrink. I am not a doormat.
However, [...]

I made calls last night for Obama to the swing state of New Mexico at the San Jose campaign office and it was really encouraging. One woman had already voted (early) in New Mexico and was going to drive over her daughter’s ballot after our call. She said I was the first person who had [...]

Frankfurt Book fair 2008
Inspired and uplifted by two prominent authors, Orhan Pamuk, and Paulo Coelho, I started off my venture to the Frankfurt Book fair with hope for success and belief in myself.
Mr. Orhan Pamuk (www.orhanpamuk.net), winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, spoke at the Opening Ceremony about his first trip to the [...]

Berlin
“We’re poor, but sexy,” says Berlin’s mayor.
I wouldn’t say that Berlin is neither poor nor sexy. It’s fascinating and dynamic. In fact, I think I am so drawn to the city because it embodies, as much as any place of concrete and human congregation can, the division of the capitalist and communist worlds that [...]