Corinna Sherman » Travel

On the go

Corinna — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:42:22 +0000

Flying on a jet plane

I will fly more this year than I have ever flown in my life. Thank goodness ticket prices are relatively low now. But aside from the expense and general hassle of schlepping to and from airports, I love looking out the window of an airplane in flight. The experience of surveying the rough texture of the earth from 30,000 feet makes me reflect on mankind’s ingenuity. Our ancestors looked up, saw the birds, hatched a dream and made it happen. What drive it took so that we could see what the topside of cumulus clouds look like firsthand.

I’m calling it a Hope Line

Corinna — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:36:05 +0000

Women for Hire held its annual job fair today at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers in Midtown. From the look of the wraparound line to get in, you’d think it was providing more than free resume critiques.

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Subway beauty

Corinna — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:39:33 +0000

If you’ve ever smiled at the little brass men in the 14th St subway station or admired the colorful tilework at City Hall station in New York City, I think you’ll agree that this subway ceiling taken inside a Taiwan station blows all that out of the water. Standing underneath it, I really felt like I was looking up from beneath the ocean surface. Beautiful. The rest of the subway was impressively clean and pleasant as well, despite the crowds.

7-Eleven in Taiwan

Corinna — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:10:05 +0000

7-Eleven in Taiwan

Two bits of trivia:

7-Eleven stores are ubiquitous in Taiwan, with a density in the major cities that rivals that of Starbucks in Manhattan.

7-Eleven in Taiwan is open 24 hours a day. But it’s still called 7-Eleven, not Twenty Four. Weird.