Being a vagabond and a nomad, (a cowgirl on the road as it were), has its up and downs.

On the one hand, travel is all about adventure, experiencing new stuff, and often being outside of your comfort zone – love those bits. Living out of a suitcase, on the other, can quickly become quite tedious – hate that part.

After being "on the road," for almost two months now (in UK, Croatia and

As post-election trauma and violence sweep across Iran, the powerfully positive forces of music and dance are also at work transforming our world.

Today, I was exposed to two inspirational musical initiatives, one of which I’d like to share with you now (I’m saving the other one for later).

One year ago today, I wrote my first-ever blog entry (Like A Virgin?), in which I joined "the millions online who share their joys, sorrows, thoughts, ideas, opinions and more, in a worldwide orgy of information."

At the time, I thought it marked the end of a journey, and so I wrote:

Most of the time I’ve traveled alone. I got lost, stumbled, tripped, fell, took wrong turns, and had to

So you thought that my suggestion to stop worldwide recession and start worldwide dance was silly huh?

Gotcha'!! I'm not the only crazy dance fanatic on this planet.

According to an article in my "hometown" newspaper the Calgary Herald:

Collin Wynter (is) an Internet sensation known around the World Wide Web as The Dancing Man.

The 28-year-old Calgarian, who works as a

I never thought I’d see a show that rivals the magic of Cirque du Soleil.

I recently enjoyed the Cirque’s Alegria, the last performance of which was delivered in Dubai in April. It was the fifth time I’ve experienced the Cirque since I first saw them during the Arts Festival held in conjunction with the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988. Since then they have risen from virtual

My dinner companions sensibly went home (or to their hotels), after an excellent Thai meal at a trendy Kuala Lumpur restaurant.

I too was headed back to my digs at the Prince Hotel, when I heard the strains of music from above.

What could I do? I had to investigate :)

Four floors up, at the top of the atrium, I found a hideaway bar hosting a reggae night. People were dancing, and so

Most of us will never be famous.

But that doesn’t mean that each of us doesn’t touch other people’s lives in deep and meaningful ways every day, often without ever knowing it.

I personally have had people come to me years after an event to tell me how profoundly something that I did or said impacted their lives. Often the something was so insignificant to me that I don’t remember it at

Britain’s Got Talent continues to be full of surprises even after it seemed unlikely that anyone could top Susan Boyle’s amazing performance of last month.

The latest contestant to astound the judges is a young Welsh wanna-be-singer-but-currently-working-as-a-waiter by the name of Greg Pritchard. (Amanda Holden’s face really says it all lol)

One does begin to wonder at the formulaic,

This week, as I waded around in the muck generated by my Two Trips to the Kingdom post on the UAE community blog, two women (one Arab, one Jew), were doing something that was much more impactful to promote peace.

Ahinoam Nini and Mira Awad were preparing to sing a duet together in tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest.

According to a recent story published by Agence France Presse (AFP):

I love to read. (Almost as much as I love to dance!)

Reading exposes me to new ideas, new perspectives and new ways of doing things.

I often find cool stuff I can implement in my own life, especially from personal growth and so-called self-help books. Such was the case with Fitting In Is Vastly Overrated, a book I read and blogged about awhile ago.

The author suggested an