This is the 100th Blog Post on Prolific Living and I decided to celebrate this milestone with reflection and joy. In celebration, I have compiled a list of my 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging in 2009. The theme of this experience which most … [Continue reading] about Celebrating the 100th Post with 100 Lessons about Life and Blogging
The 3 Best Things I learned from watching Toastmasters Speech Contestants
On November 6th and 7th, I attended my first Toastmasters Conference to support and cheer the contestants. It was the District 37 Conference in the mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. One of the best parts and motivators was the drive and rooming … [Continue reading] about The 3 Best Things I learned from watching Toastmasters Speech Contestants
8 Reasons to Experience the World’s Best Kept Secret: Tokyo’s Depachikas
If you desire it, they will have it, in the world's best kept and most delicious secret: the Depachika, the food havens in the heart of underground malls of Tokyo. A depachika is a contraction of depato (department store) and chika (underground … [Continue reading] about 8 Reasons to Experience the World’s Best Kept Secret: Tokyo’s Depachikas
Classical Music infused with Comedy by the remarkable Igudesman & Joo
I fell in love with classical music when I watched the unforgettable Igudesman and Joo in a small theater in North Carolina on a Thursday night in summer 2009. Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of … [Continue reading] about Classical Music infused with Comedy by the remarkable Igudesman & Joo
Henry James: “Daisy Miller” and “Washington Square”
I read "Daisy Miller" and "Washington Square" because Azar Nafisi mentioned them in "Reading Lolita in Tehran". I had set out to complete the reading list of all the books mentioned in Nafisi's tales of Iran, and next on my list were these two short … [Continue reading] about Henry James: “Daisy Miller” and “Washington Square”
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