Welcome to Japan…and the impending jet lag

Tuesday, I left bright and early (not so bright since it was 4 AM when I left the house) for nyc. I had a brief layover in Miami, and randomly got lucky and had a seat in business class for the flight from Miami to NYC. I only had a night in NYC before I…

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Lembranças

In Brazil, they have these little cloth bracelets called lembranças. Lembrança translated means a combination of souvenir, remembrance, recollection, keepsake—but either way it is really attached to memories. They sell them in different places and the bracelets will have the name of the location that that you’re in that you want to remember, e.g.: Lembrança do…

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