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 10 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? 10 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 10 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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