Why you really need to leave the country (preferably for somewhere new to you)
Although I agree with her whole heartedly, Caitlin Kelly has walked this talk so much more truly than I have that I feel her words...
Book Report: My Kind of Place
In the introduction to My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean confesses that she loves to travel – even to places that don’t sound wonderful. When...
Retreat! (Iceland Writers Retreat, That Is)
I don’t remember who posted the tweet about Iceland Writers Retreat. But I remember the arrow to the heart feeling when I saw it; that...
Not Too Shabby
One of the lessons that resonated with me most in Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project was her rule to “Be Gretchen.” Rubin found that she...
In Defense of Smell
On the bus this morning, I was reading Natasha Narayan’s book, The Maharajah’s Monkey. I enjoy the Kit Salter series about the Indiana Jones-like adventures...