Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in Connections La Leche League is a nonsectarian organization, meaning we are not affiliated with and do not advocate any one religion, denomination, sect, or set of spiritual beliefs. But what does that mean in print? For Area Leaders’ Letters (ALLs) and other LLL publications it means: • Religious holidays are not referred […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally written for a Westminster College writing class, spring 2006. Rudolph “The Sheik†Valentino married his second wife—a great-granddaughter of Mormon patriarch Heber C. Kimball—in 1922 and then again, legally, in 1923. Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy took it from there. “He does not look like your husband. He is not in the least like your brother. […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Letters, narratives, location memoirs, stories, and diaries; ethnographies and monographs; adventure and misadventure journals; and celebrations of food, culture, and place. Arranged alphabetically by author’s—often husband’s— last name. Compiled by Kathy Grossman. Last updated November 2006. Anonymous (1770?– ) Maiden Voyages and Infant Colonies: Two Women’s Travel Narratives of the 1790s. Edited by Deirdre Coleman […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally written for Westminster College’s Travel Writing class, Fall 2006 The sharp pork, corn, and chili aromas from tamales filled the air as the tour group stood in front of Los Angeles’ Union Station looking over at Olvera Street. “Let’s meet back at El Paseo at 11:30 for lunch,†said Janice, our guide. “El Paseo,†[…]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally written for Westminster College’s Travel Writing class, Fall 2006 “You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person.” Alex Waugh This isn’t the Greece of my 2006 calendar. The Greece of island beaches, Melina Mercouri swimming in her underwear, little white houses with blue roofs, Zorba dancing with […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally written for Westminster College’s Travel writing class, Fall 2006 I had our 25th wedding anniversary all planned out. Tom and I, our three sons plus a girlfriend, would head off to Ireland for two weeks, rent a van, shop, research our family tree, visit megalithic dolmens and the Cliffs of Moher, eat big Irish […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 I always thought it would be ideal to live six months of the year in one place and the other six months of the year in another place. I’d have a trailer down in Tucson for the winter and I’d have a summer cabin in a lovely […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 Blueberry season is almost over in Nome. It hasn’t been an easy berry-picking season for us Nomeites with weeks and weeks of rain. You could hear it in the murmurs at the post office, you could see it in the listless faces on Front Street. We were […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 It’s been a quiet week in Nome. The sun’s coming up closer and closer to lunchtime now and it’s risky business walking downtown. We got a little bit of snow and then it got cold, the powder blew away, and a slick hard film coated the entire […]
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Originally published in The Nome Nugget, Summer 1995 As you read this, I’ll be unpacking in an apartment in Anchorage. And while the family is looking forward to malls and Kentucky Fried Chicken for six months, my heart tells me we’re doing the wrong thing for winter. We should have stayed put in Nome. “But […]
