Child of Indianapolis: Rediscovering my hometown through Kurt Vonnegut and Cat’s Cradle
by Katherine Mclaughlin I’m from Indianapolis, but when I turned 18 I moved away. I wanted to attend college and study writing in the most vibrant, cultured place I could…
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Make Your Own Fantasy Island at Adventure Suites While Staying in the Haunted Castle
by Francis McGovern I remember when I was young and growing up in the seventies, we watched TV mostly with the family. Back then there was no on demand, what…
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Visiting the “Castle of Light” during the darkest month of the year: An adventure to the National Library of Latvia
You may splinter us, you may break us We’ll reach the horizon, where the sun rises! – from Broken Pines by Rainis by Jaclyn Tilks It is November in Riga…
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Relax, Energize and Inspire your Creative Side with a stay at San Miguel de Allende’s Casa Delphine
by Antoinette Weil Somewhere in between three and four hours north of Mexico City’s traffic-filled roads and people-filled squares, sits San Miguel de Allende. Colonial architecture in warm hues and…
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Lord, I Can’t Be Afraid of No Dog
By Tzivia Gover The airport shuttle bounced through the colorful crowded streets of el centro, then wended its way into a scruffy desert neighborhood—and my heart began to sink. I…
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In the Wake of Giants and The Sea of Cortez
by Cyndie Zikmund When John Steinbeck launched a boat expedition in March of 1940 with the purpose of cataloging creatures living in the Sea of Cortez, he didn’t think his…
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War Games and Winter in Finland’s Lapland: Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare
by Toma Kavonius Reading Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare once again made me yearn for a proper Finnish winter. I have always relished the Helsinki summer with its…
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Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea
By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque than Winthrop-By-The-Sea and the adjacent…
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Outdoor Adventure in Vermont
by Francis McGovern One of the biggest challenges throughout the year is getting the kids off the TV and video games and out into the great Outdoors. It’s fine if…
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Robert Louis Stevenson and Western Samoa
Western Samoa claims the largest proportion of full-blooded Polynesians in the world. At last count there were 162,000 of them, a collection of robust, often tattooed, sometimes obese, lava lava clad folks who live on the two main islands of Savai’i, and Upolu.
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