She is wearing a robe spun from shooting stars and I’m wearing a dress sewn from a sheet of rain.
Of course I don’t enjoy being robbed, but as an adventuress, I have been robbed a few times, from waking up to some scalliwag trying to take my backpack out from under my head, to standing on a crowded bus and noticing some joker unzipping the zipper of my bag. Sometimes they succeeded, sometimes they didn’t.
It was 1996, I was having a rough time working in Mexico City. I was belly dancing in Polanco and living above the Arabic nightclub. My best friend, Kim, came to rescue me, and we bought bus tickets and headed out to explore the country.
It’s quite surprising how euphoric a gorgeous pair of shoes can make me feel!
“I had missed the Running of the Bulls because I was brushing my teeth in a matador’s hotel room.”
I have never felt more like a queen than swimming in a waterfall in a jungle surrounded by ancient stones with my twin soul, who put her arms around me when I was cold…
Still to this day, thirty years later, I smell Chanel No. 5 and I am transported back to that little room in Spain, to the exquisite lightness of being a girl who loves starlight dancing in her hair.
We were visiting London on business, monkey business…
Lost in Italy, Found in a field of sunflowers
I love to travel and my lack of funds led me to some very interesting places. First stop? The Dating Game in1988 where I won a trip to Hawaii!
