by Daisy Rosales | Oct 21, 2015 | Asia, International, Taiwan
My love for Taiwan runs deep. I grew up visiting at least once a year, partly because much of my extended family still lived there at the time. Every January, my mom would fly us to Taipei to celebrate the Lunar New Year when my cousins would get a break from school...
by Daisy Rosales | Oct 19, 2015 | self-improvement, spirituality, Uncategorized
Demeanor, (n.): outward behavior or bearing (e.g., a quiet, somber demeanor). Synonyms: manner, air, attitude, appearance, look. The past few weeks have been chock full of failures, frustrations, rejections, and struggles. But you wouldn’t know it if you came...
by Daisy Rosales | Oct 16, 2015 | minimalism, simplify, Uncategorized
This post is going to make me sound really old-fashioned. Perhaps, just old. I work with kids everyday, and even if I’m barely 10 years older than some of them, I see a stark difference between their realities and mine. While my students are hardly a conclusive...
by Daisy Rosales | Oct 15, 2015 | Wardrobe
Once autumn rolls around, we tend to put away the whites. The old fashion “rule” of not wearing white after Labor Day has sunk in deep. But, as someone who loves wearing white and doesn’t believe in fashion rules anyway, my goal is to make white a...
by Daisy Rosales | Oct 13, 2015 | self-improvement, Uncategorized
Someone recently remarked that we are a nation of problem solvers. I would extend that statement to encompass much of Western culture. Our instinctive response to a problem is to seek a solution– the sooner the better. There’s nothing wrong with solving...
