When I was little, sunsets were the harbingers of death. Yes, literally death. My mother would tell us terrifying stories of what clowns and monsters (euphemisms for child molesters and rapists; although "clown" does the...
Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter -- tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...
One of my favorite things about Rome is that no matter what street you're walking down, you will eventually hit one of the city's gazillion "piazzas". A piazza, not a fancy way to say "pizza" but...
I'm so excited about our latest APAC SPDR® ETF advertising campaign that I just had to share it with you! This year's branding campaign articulates the SPDR "Precise in a world that isn't.℠" brand platform through...
Hey Lisa, should we be worried that August is hurricane season in St. Thomas?" Nahwww. Come on, what are the chances?" Apparently they're pretty darn high. Rewind. For 5 sparkling days Izabella and I frolicked along the coast...
While I would have liked to have spent more time in Bangkok, my weekend trip to Thailand's largest city was just enough to feel like I escaped the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong. Just...
Q: What do you get when you combine a werewolf, Hannibal Lecter and a White Walker? A: Me, before 10:30am. So you can imagine my delight when we had to wake up at 4:32am to trek over...
For as long as I could remember, I've always loved the electric buzz of modern cosmopolitan cities. Having lived in NYC, Chicago and now Hong Kong, I love the endless crop of stores full of...
New York always looks the same to me. There might be a new building here or a once-drug-addict-infested-area-turned-hipster-hotspot there but for the most part, the concrete jungle has not significantly changed over the past two,...
You ever get that creepy feeling that there's someone's watching you? Watching as you hover over the kitchen sink devouring that last morsel of re-heated pizza like the secret slob that you are (shh..); as...
There are so many reasons why our 12-day, 7-city trip to Turkey was amazing. One of the peripheral ones was inspired by Natsumi Hayashi, who takes amazing levitation photos and in 3D no less (find...
If you've talked to me over the past two years, you've probably heard me obsessively gushing about the meticulous and esoteric wonders of Japan; that and my unhealthy fixation on zombies. But the latter is...