Whether you make just one international long distance call a month or numerous calls, it pays to compare international calling plans to find the best overseas phone rate for the country you are... Read more >>

One spring several years ago, I took a trip to Spain. Although it was great to explore the Moorish ruins of Andalucía, it would have been better to have had more than four hours a day to do it.... Read more >>

The sun slowly mounted the sky, swallowing the blue of the night in its orange pool with each second. Suddenly, the shrill, grating cry of the cock echoed through the silent hills. The sun had risen... Read more >>

Like so many moms, the Well Rounded Woman has a sentimental side, which explains why she has saved every single Mother’s Day gift her children have ever given her. Those tiny plaster-cast hands,... Read more >>

Journey to the West was written by Wu Ch’eng-en (1500?–1582), a scholar-official and is one of the renowned classical Chinese novels about an allegorical rendition of the journey, mingled... Read more >>

In case you haven’t heard the news yet, starting on June 1, 2009 most Americans will need a passport to travel to Mexico and Canada. While finding a coupon or deal on the passport application... Read more >>

One of the first signs of being outside the United States, is that you hear about other news besides the war in Iraq. Right at this moment, I am reading a story in a local newspaper in France... Read more >>