With images of apple orchards, vineyards and blackberries in my head, I returned home from a beautiful weekend in Sonoma, where I attended my friend’s wedding, and found my father on the couch shaking.
“I am sick. Get me a bucket.”
I brought him a bucket into which he vomited, not once but five times in [...]

US Citizens and Global Citizens
Disclaimer:
I apologize for not writing a unique blog entry this week. My father has been in the hospital and my mind has been elsewhere. I wrote this speech late at night and it has some grammatical and spelling errors. I delivered it at the New Immigrant ceremony at the United [...]

Along with millions worldwide, I watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics and was spellbound by the artistry and fireworks. Days later, I heard on the radio that the amazing fireworks I saw on TV were partially generated via computer automation and that the NBC “live” coverage of the Olympics wasn’t so live as the [...]

For months, my mom talked on and on about our unique family reunion in Minneapolis. To my surprise, the event was much more touching than I could have imagined. I was expecting the worst.
Over 100 people in the US, Russia, Israel, Denmark, Cuba, Brazil, and Canada were invited. Thirty-four people assembled from the US, Canada, [...]

While preparing my books on how to learn foreign languages easily and how to travel on a budget, I looked for a graphic designer, web designer and publicist last week.
My goal is to create a media company with products empowering people to engage with the world. I want to create global citizens, but I am [...]

My Communist demonsPosted on Jul 22, 2008 03:27:00 PM by Susanna Zaraysky for New America Media
I wanted to write on this topic over a week ago, but I was frankly too scared to tell anyone.
Born in the city baptized by Vladimir Lenin’s grandiose legend, I never seemed to rid myself of the vestiges of Communism [...]

I have been neglecting this blog for a while as I’ve been migrating my website and blog to Wordpress. However, the transfer of files has been slower than what I would have liked. I’ve also been busy preparing my two books, Budget Globetrotter and Language is Music ready to go to press. They’ll be published [...]

Last week, I finished reading, La fine e’ il mio inizio (The end is my beginning), a wonderful book by Tiziano Terzani, an Italian journalist . As a fellow writer and world enthusiast, I found his books incredibly poignant as at the end of his life he chose to travel inward rather than trot the [...]