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About The Contributer
Liz Hendrickson is a San Francisco bay area resident, grandmother, lawyer, and founding member of Women Drummers International. (All photographs (c) Francis Eatherington.)
1/11/09
It’s hard to believe, but a week ago today I was in Havana, hanging out along the waterfront, in the open air market and in the old town tourist district. Bus [...]

It saddened me to leave India early, but I did not want my family and friends to stress over my being there. So with a heavy heart, I departed India by way of Doha, Qatar, London, UK, and Los Angeles, CA. My body is just now catching up with the enormity of the Mumbai attacks.

Qatar [...]

Antwerp travelogue, dispatch and photographs
About Antwerp

J’adore Paris and how she makes me feel!
Testify
Sometimes you won’t understand why life is the way it is
Things don’t always go the way you plan them
But I believe god in time is anonymous and in through time god reveals all things
You gotta be still, stand and lovin’
Pay attention
I just want to testify
I just gotta [...]

(Photos from Colaba Causeway in Mumbai, India)

My Paris social committments with the sistahs
will be anything but “For Gents Only”.
Absolument!
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No paparazzi please!

Stay tuned for news and photos from my mistress Paris.

Gender Notions-Between A Rock And A Hard Place

The plight of women and girls in India can only be described as between a rock and a hard place. On the one hand women from middle class and affluent backgrounds are encouraged to pursue their ambitions without regard to their gender. Women can be found amongst the [...]

I’m ambivalent about the places I’ve visited in Mexico largely in part because I have traveled there for business not leisure. From the moment I board my connecting flight in Dallas/Fort Worth and notice the flight is nearly full with American white male and Mexican male subcontractors and multinational workers I brace myself. 
On a [...]

These photographs were taken from the trans bay bus on the Oakland Bay Bridge. I was headed to the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco to pick up my travel visa. I thought about the wintry weather I may have to endure in Shanghai and Beijing next month. For now my heart is warmed with the [...]

Monterrey, Mexico!