Last month, my mother and I traveled to China. It was an amazing trip; China is indescribable and fascinating, surprising, unexpected, controversial, complicated, impressive and moving – a world of superlatives and contrasts. China is a great and vast nation with an ancient culture of major historical importance. Marco Polo explored China seven centuries ago [...] Read more »
Wonderful Wisconsin
I am now in the heart of America…right in the center where rolling green hills, tall silos and leaning red barns compose the landscape of Wisconsin. I discovered Door County this summer on the way to its very tip – beautiful enchanting and wild Rock Island – where my boyfriend and I went kayaking and [...] Read more »
The Walls of Berlin
Berlin is amazing – hip, vibrant, bohemian, sophisticated, artistic, musical, cultural and avant-garde, so great … I am running out of adjectives. The city still bears the marks of its forty year division into East and West. But like a phoenix, it is quite literally rising from the ashes of its tragic past. Berlin has [...] Read more »
Vert de Gris – an Ode to Belgium
For my first article on Sensational Color, I’ve decided to write about what I know best and love most – the colors of Belgium, my little country. It is not easy reducing a country to one color. However there is a palette that defines this low land and its quiet nostalgic beauty; Vert de Gris. [...] Read more »
Raise the Red Lantern
I just returned from a 3 week trip to China and Hong Kong. It was my first trip to Asia and I hope certainly, not my last. The most impressive thing about China is the people. I’ve never met such kind, happy, hospitable people in my life (and I’m from the South). And Hong Kong [...] Read more »
