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About Marlena Fiol

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Marlena Fiol, PhD, is a world-renowned author, scholar, speaker, and a spiritual seeker whose writing explores the depths of who we are and what's possible in our lives. Her most recent essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Summerset Review, Under the Sun and The Furious Gazelle, among others. A sampling of her publications on identity and learning are available at marlenafiol.com.

Tai Chi in China

July 22, 2018 by Marlena FiolLeave a Comment

Our dear tai chi master, Dr. Paul Lam, and his partner Hazel invited us to join them as part of a small group on a two-week tai chi workshop/tour of China. Dr. Lam said he designed the trip to be “fun and serious, leisurely and exciting, like the yin and yang of tai chi.” This design of contrasts generated a trip of remarkable paradoxes: Absolutely clean wide modern streets and filthy holes-in-the-ground bathrooms. Great Wall preserved … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asia · Tagged: Architecture, Art, Baseball, Beer, Beijing, Bus Travel, China, Culture, Drinking, Food and Wine, History, Mountain Climbing, Museum, New York City, Traffic, Train Travel, Village, Walking tour

Unsettling

April 29, 2018 by Marlena Fiol2 Comments

We entered a narrow lane crowded with shoppers, shopkeepers, motorcycles, rickshaws and animals. Throngs of people pushed their way past us, ogling us suspiciously, much like the dead fish lying in frozen ice in one of the shops, their eyes wide open staring at us. Above us there were twisted and tangled cables and wires, like spaghetti, hanging from buildings and poles. On each side were endless rows of shops with dirt floors and corrugated tin … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Asia · Tagged: America, Animal Rescue, Bicycle, China, Fashion, Food and Wine, India, Seafood, Shopping Mall, Taxi, Traffic, Walking tour, Wildlife

Camino de Santiago

March 3, 2018 by Marlena Fiol1 Comment

The air in the waiting room at the Bilbao International Airport pressed against us, dank and heavy. A greasy stench rose from a counter loaded with plastic containers of Spanish omelets. “Where are they?” My voice sounded edgy. “I thought Brad told us he would be right under that Celular sign.” We scanned the room. In the far corner, a group of young men, all wearing identical yellow and black T-shirts displaying an image of a large soccer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Europe · Tagged: Airport, Animal Rescue, Beer, Chile, Drinking, Europe, Food and Wine, France, Hiking, Journey, Mountain Climbing, Oregon, Spain, Trekking, Walking tour, Wine Tasting

A Remington and a Volvo

June 28, 2017 by Marlena FiolLeave a Comment

At 9, I thought it was crazy. My dad was going to squeeze Mom and all six of us kids into a boxy, top heavy, narrow Volvo station wagon, and we were going to drive for three months from our home in Paraguay to Kansas where my father grew up. This trip had been his dream since coming to Paraguay in 1951 to found and manage a Mennonite leprosy mission. “Is there really a road that goes all the way from Paraguay to the States?” I asked. Dad … [Read more...]

Filed Under: South America · Tagged: Alaska, America, Andes, Argentina, Bridges, Bus Travel, Canals, Central America, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Drinking, Fashion, Food and Wine, Kansas, Naked, Nicaragua, Panama Canal, Panama City, South America

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