Traveling Through

• Why I Continue To Travel 8 years ago The university in Sfax, Tunisia. I can't imagine living with that sky every day. “Please be careful.” A friend’s Facebook message popped up on my computer as I sat in my Dijon apartment eating lunch and reading about the terrorist attack that had just happened in Brussels. I...
• What I Want For You in 2015 9 years ago  Life that was holding on in my neighborhood in France even as winter was closing in Sometimes it seems the whole world is on fire. Last month I had vowed to turn off the news and change my home page on the Internet from an aggregation of news horribleness to I Can Has Cheezburger, the home...
• No Love For Paris? 9 years ago  Love along the Seine in ParisParis is collapsing under the weight of too much love. You like Paris. I like Paris. The food, the art, the fashion. L’amour. Yes, l’amour. The City of Lights has also had a reputation as the City of Love. On my flights over to there, sometimes it feels like half...
• What's Growing In My Garden 9 years ago "Bloom Where You Are Planted" -- oh, the lessons a garden can teach us (Ashland County, OH)Summer seems to resist letting go this year. We’re reaching the end of September and still the sun bakes me as I weed like a madwoman and begin preparing the garden for some of that end-of-season moving...
• Is There Such a Thing as a "Last Dog"? 10 years ago When I was a child I’d lie awake each night listening for the burglar to come up the hall and into my room to get me. He was a very sneaky burglar. I’d hear the floorboards creak and then silence. Of course, he knew I was awake and so he was just waiting until I fell asleep to take that second...

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