If you’re looking for something to read, you’re in luck. Here is a roundup of all the articles I wrote that published in March.
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Secret Lagoon
Although it looks like an abandoned shed and a natural pool from this angle, Secret Lagoon is actually a well maintained bath house with showers and amenities just off the Golden Circle route. Although it was still relatively secret when I visited years ago, these days you need a reservation or you probably won’t get in.
And can I tell you a secret? The day my family visited, I was so busy packing everything my kids might need for the Golden Circle that I forgot my own bathing suit at the hotel and had to pass my own underwear off as a bikini. (Don’t worry, I still showered properly.) These days, it’s possible to rent a bathing suit, so I must not have been the only person to make that mistake.
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Published in February 2022
For me, February is often a do-over for the New Year. January 1 comes too soon on the heels of the big holidays, when I’m not quite sorted out to feel like new beginning. But after the long, usually dreary, month of January, Chinese New Year comes just in time to regroup and relaunch. This time it’s the Year of the Tiger, my own zodiac sign. Even though your zodiac year isn’t traditionally auspicious, I’m going to be a Westerner and feel special like a special Tiger in 2022. Here’s what I published at the start of the Tiger Year.
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Toy Box
As there are in small towns across the island, in Borgarnes, on Iceland’s Snaefellsnes peninsula, there is a local folk history museum. They are all much the same, with a reproduced turf house, a bunch of taxidermied native animals and obsolete accoutrements of farmlife. My two kids and I passed through this one in about half an hour, even with the guided tour. Then, on the way out, the kids spotted a wooden box pushed against a wall. It was filled with bones, horns, and seashells. The guide explained that children in the old days didn’t get toys from a store, they played with what they could find. My kids played with the items in the box for nearly an hour before I finally dragged them out of the museum as it was closing.
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Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Plot Points
Rep 4 of Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 2021-2022 season is Plot Points, a mixed rep program of four pieces that play with the concept of storytelling. I’m a little late to the party because I attended on the second weekend. There’s a world premiere and a PNB premiere by choreographers who are already well-loved by PNB audiences. The (almost) title piece, Plot Point, is already an audience favorite.
