Allende is a strong believer in diverse personal experiences providing the substance for unique stories. On the heels of this, Allende has written 23 books, which have been translated into 35 languages, having sold 70 million copies worldwide. Her works have been adapted into movies, plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and radio programs..
Read MoreThe Boateng brothers, born Germans, show a strong connection to their roots through tattoos. Jerome’s upper left arm displays an outline of Africa with the word GHANA boldly written inside, and his lower right arm has his Ghanaian name ‘Agyenim’ tattooed on it...
Read MoreBorn in Rome, Giada often found herself immersed in the family's kitchen and spent a great deal of time at her grandfather's restaurant. De Laurentiis went on to study at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, with burning aspirations of becoming a pastry chef, however on moving to America, she tapped into the large Italian diaspora, steeped deeply in its culinary tradition...
Read MoreShe has released a book ‘Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions’—where having received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist, this was her letter of response...
Read MoreNow in the Trump era, my heart is constantly splintering from the stories we’re hearing about the dreamers’ fight to live in their own country, the insane push against immigration, this stupid Mexican wall and the black men being terrorized by an unjust and insane system. Lately, as an Editor-In-Chief who is working hard to promote diversity and understanding, I have really been struggling...
Read MoreHis experience of growing up in a British-Pakistani family and building his career in the years following the 9/11 attacks has shaped him greatly to push the British and global film industry to increase opportunities for minority actors.
Read MoreMr. Tanaka is about 55 years old. I imagine in his prime he was a heart throb. He still is. He has a wonderful full on look. It wouldn’t surprise me if he broke quite a few hearts in his overseas assignments....
Read MoreI have also come to realize that one’s ...ikigai can change over time. That’s not something to be wary of, but something to embrace.
Read MoreIn Korea, our keys were punched out from a flimsy steel, and they were rough-edged. I sometimes used the sharp part to gouge into a package wrapping or to open a letter. I managed to bend a few in locks that had frozen in Taegu’s blisteringly cold winters....
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