I posted this entry on my personal website but I thought I would also post it here because I wrote it to share with you. (Since you asked, here is the answer!)

In July of 2008 I will have been a vegetarian for 20 years.

As I come to this milestone anniversary, I consider my original intentions and relay some of my experience. In many ways I am not the same person I was 20 years ago, yet I have remained vegetarian all the while. I am constantly asked why I am vegetarian so I thought I would write it down. [Read more →]

(Wow Nadiana, you’ve struck your first chord with me. I guessed this website would be an interesting project. Now I break my rules on talking about politics and reply.)

You may find it interesting that the word “Tibet” is likely derived from an Arabic word which means “the heights”. Tibet is often referred to as the “Roof of the World.”

As far as earning their right to independence through war; I know that in 1949 a Chinese army twenty times larger than Tibet’s forced them into signing an agreement but Tibet is not China. [Read more →]