opera Archives - Christina Irene

Let Us Stand (Literally)

22 Aug

Earlier this week, an attendee at one of my speeches approached me after my program and told me she, too, has arthritis and degenerative disc disease. Our conversation moved on to how painful it is to sit. You may not...
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I’m Not Rude. I Have Fibromyalgia.

4 Apr

Today was my birthday, and a gift I got myself, besides the whole being in Belgium thing, was the opera. I guess I should write a blog about how this opera love of mine came to be, but for now,...
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What’s better than saying “hello”? This….

11 Dec

A Khmer woman expressing arkoun on top of Phimeanakas Temple, of the Temples of Angkor in Cambodia

I try not to be the American jerk who shows up to another country and doesn’t bother to learn a spec of their language. So when I took my most recent international birthday adventure, I had ambitious plans to brush...
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