My Several Worlds

A la recherche du temps perdu/In search of time lost - by Yu-fen Guo

Lost in You
Fears and tears mingle.
The divine storms strike a dark age
of diaspora, leaving the modifiers dangle,
lost in you, a subject consumed with rage.
When the sky is clear
will the trampled feathers dry
and soar in full gear?
Lost in you, the vista of [...]

Shoe lust in Toyko, Japan.
I lust for whimsical creations of skinny heels and minute straps; adorned with bows and glitter. I adore a solid power pump, stacked on a platform heel. Miu Miu gives me shivers. The signature red sole of a Christian Louboutin shoe stops me dead in my tracks. I [...]

This post is going out to some special lady friends and bloggers who have taken the time to share an interest in my life over the past year.
Congratulations are in order for my girl, Sarah. I’m so frickin’ proud of her I’m practically bursting at the seams. Sarah just completed a 42km marathon in Dublin, [...]

“The pain, of course, teaches an important lesson: no price is too great, no process too repulsive, no operation too painful for the women who would be beautiful. The tolerance of pain and the romanticization of that tolerance begins…in preadolescence, in socialization, and serves to prepare the women for lives of childbearing, self-abnegation, and husband [...]

The barbaric practice of footbinding in China began in the 10th century sometime during the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and ended over a thousand years later. Footbinding was practiced on young girls usually six years of age and younger. Feet were wrapped in tight bandages and broken so they couldn’t grow. Footbinding was [...]

Old school dayz.  Sarah, Jo and I at a Chicks with Decks Party.  Circa 2002??
This post is going out to Jo and Sarah. 
As I was lying in bed last night, waiting for sleep to come, I got to thinking about two of my good friends and the circumstances that have drawn us away from each other.  At one [...]

Maya Angelou plays a myriad of roles in life. She is a poet, a writer, a mother, a dreamer, an actress, a philanthropist, an American Civil Rights activist, a journalist, a scholar, a traveler, a teacher, and a true inspiration to women around the world, including Oprah Winfrey!
She is wise and kind and everything [...]

100 meters. 10.75 seconds. Damn, that’s fast.

 
Margaret Mead 1901-1978
When I was a young girl, (perhaps 8 or 9 years of age), my father read me a story about Margaret Mead. It was one of my favorite stories and I loved to read it on my own as well. I thought Margaret Mead was a fantastically interesting person. She was a pioneer [...]