“A man may pay his mistress with money, gifts, or even his seed… but never with love. Love is reserved for only his wife.” - Japanese Proverb
Every so often our perceptions and opinions on human pair bonding and monogamy are tested by either a very public scandal or an intimately personal tragedy, but [...]

What is geisha? The loose translation is artist or artesian, but a geisha is not just an artist per se even though she is highly skilled in many forms of artistic expression such as calligraphy, music, dance, ikebana, chashitsu, among many other skills she must learn before she is perfect. The geisha is herself [...]