When someone smiles at me, I realize that I am probably smiling at them. One of my highest priorities in life is to see people smile back at me.

Mother’s Day.. let’s mess with mom – Maracay, Venezuela
Cultural hike in Korea
Everything is for sale – Cambodia
Mask festivals, tea ceremonies and historical re-enactments in South Korea
More favorite smiles that bring favorite memories
Korean subway, met Elvis’s doppleganger.. though not wrong.. didn’t feel right..
Students always smiling in Korea
Kids at play with very big knife – Cambodia
Wow.. another favorite smiler in Korea
Smiling???? in Korea
tuk tuk – Cambodia
This is one of my favorite smiling pictures.. I wish I knew what led up to the laugh.. I can only imagine.
Venezuela, Took 3 men to hoist this post. Well not really but they wanted to pose with it.
makes me smile
Holding the chick – Cambodia
Foot Bridge in Delta Orinoco Venezuela
Angie in Korea.. always smiling for the camera
Dancing in Korea — smiling memories.. miss those days
Para Falls Boat ride smiles.
My students always smiled in Korea.
Snakes make you smile at Para Falls
Only when I am surrounded by my sisters and my daughters can I truly be myself. When I watch them, I am watching myself. When I see them laugh, cry, be goofy, be angry, I am seeing a modified reflection of myself. I am a part of them and they are all every part of me. Even when I am not with them, they are with me.
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald
Fun with friends is when I am also most myself. Smiling at others to have others smile back at me is what makes me feel most myself.
Playing with some kids at an orphanage in South Korea. Worked with the Organization PLUR started by my friend Danny
Go Navy – Caracas
DMZ – woot woot – Korea
Rafting in Barinas Venezuela with Guamanchi tours.
Smiles or fishlips in Korea – favorite smiler
Best friend in New York. She always makes me smile
Santiago, Chile
Awkward smiles in DC..
Smile for the foto – Valley Stream, New York
Funny how smiles can make lasting impressions in DC
Lunches in Korea
Animal Safari with Guamanchi tours in Los Llanos
Good times in DC and 3 of my favorite smiles
Lunch with friends in Korea always brought a smile.. always a laugh
4th of July – presenting a front – Caracas
New York
Good-bye lunch – Korea
Happy hour in hollywood – Caracas
Doesn’t get any better than this, I’m sure there’s a Malbec in there somewhere. Wine tasting in Chile
Skydiving in Higuerote, Venezuela with Skydive Venezuela
Possibly a Malbec – Bogota
Over the top smiles in Venezuela
Made the front page of the social times in a local newspaper just by being there. Seoul Korea
Back of cabs with friends. Iphone 5.
Sport Chumps smile for the fundraiser.
Seriously one of my most favorite smilers in DC
Skydiving in Higuerote, Venezuela with Skydive Venezuela
A break – Going to Chile for wine tasting
New York
Friends in Korea shopping.
Chile with another one of my favorite smilers
Venezuela Animal Safari with friends and family
Paragliding in Merida, Venezuela with Guamanchi Tours
Starting the Trip in New York
Rasberries in Colonial Tovar Venezuela
Truly some of my favorite smiles in DC
Hollywood – Caracas
Enjoying Chilean wine in Chile with good friends.
Elmo New York
New York
Canyoning in Merida with Guamanchi Tours
Swimming in a forgotten river in Venezuela with good friends. So beautiful
Guamanchi tours in Barinas Venezuela rafting trip
Mother’s Day lunch with great friend and her family of over 15 years.
Happy Hour in Hollywood – Caracas
Mask Festival – Andong – Korea
“This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, ‘aw shit, he’s up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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