Taking time to meditate may conversely give you more time, and space, in your busy life.There’s always time to meditate / Photo Troy B ThompsonLike most people, I often calculate my day once my head has cleared out the grogginess of the previous night’s sleep.I need to get up, eat, shower, take entirely too many supplements, make sure I don’t forget any of the 20 things I need for the day such as my cell phone, keys, food, sunglasses, etc, squeeze in a yoga or dance class, push through any writing blocks while staring at my computer for hours on end.

Andy Abercrombie and his wife watch improbable loads being hauled by bike around Hue.I’VE SEEN SOME CRAZY THINGS during the past month in Hue, Vietnam.For a family outing, it seems quite common for three or more people to squeeze onto a motorbike. This includes children of all sizes and sometimes babies on the hip.

Things change after 10 years.IN THE LATE NINETIES, I was a teenager growing up in New Delhi. Today, I am a 32-year old woman living in the United States.There are a few other things that I am. I am a mother and a wife. I am also a newbie writer, which probably is beside the point. Or maybe it isn’t. The point is, for the most part, I am exactly what I was expected to be at 32, back then when I was still 17.

People say opening your romantic relationships up to include other people is a one way ticket to disaster. For one married woman, it was a way back to finding first love.We screamed over bowls of cornflakes in the morning about nothing. It was no way to live. Ten years of marriage, work together, parent together, everything together.

I have no words to describe the gratuitous brutality displayed by the Egyptian army in this video.THE INTRODUCTION to the video reads:Kasr al-Aini events the street on which the violence has been centered , 17/12/2011To those defending the military councilTo the oblivious who believe that the army and people are one handTo El-Ganzoury current ‘Prime Minister’ of Egypt , did you speak the truth?

I had never heard of Hamboards until this May, when I saw one in a store window in Laguna Beach, California.IT WAS THE BIGGEST LONGBOARD I had ever seen, a seven-foot-long plywood monster painted with retro red racing stripes. It literally looked like a surfboard with wheels: you could even buy an optional rubber-tipped “oar” and stand-up paddle it down the sidewalk.