Travel
November 26, 2009
- So often we only read about the trials and tribulations of air travel at this time of year, and I want to share with you a letter I've written to Sun Country Airlines with some cheery news this Thanksgiving. Dear Sun Country Airlines, It has been many years since my husband and I last flew your airline. We left Minnesota nearly a decade ago, but this year we decided to spend the ...
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November 25, 2009
- In the last few decades, airports have styled themselves as great places for art exhibits. After all, thousands of travelers pass through airports. They are often a captive audience. And airports are large civic places begging for both beautification and intellectual stimulation. I mean, how much CNN can one person watch, right?To read more about Art in Airports and to see what I found ...
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November 24, 2009
- Here is my absolutely flat-out adventure. There was a chill in the air as it got dark. We were a group of four. Instead of doing the usual dinner-dance routine - it was New Year’s Eve in Nepal - we decided to start early and walk through Darbar Square and then hit the back-packer hub of Thamel.We kept changing pubs and finally found ourselves at the Rum Doodle. We had no idea about its history. ...
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November 23, 2009
- I wrote this essay some years back but since it’s timely once more, here it is with a little tweaking… Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.Andrew—- **** “Thanks-giving,” said Mr. K., my seventh grade English teacher. “Repeat after me: Thanksgiving.”“Ssshthanks give in,” I repeated, but the word tumbled and hissed, turning my mouth into a wind tunnel. A funny word, “Ssshthanks ...
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November 20, 2009
- "I prefer the voices in my head to the voices outside" Said my friend. "The voices in my head know when it is time to be quiet." Before he continued before I called over the bored waitress and asked her to get a beer for my friend. My friend has seen quite a lot in his life that people were not meant to see and as a result his sanity tends to move in opposite ...
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November 20, 2009
- Medieval and Renaissance Venetians often built exterior staircases on their homes to save precious living space. But the architects of the Scala Contarini del Bovolo -- or staircase of the snail shell -- took the art of floor-to-floor mobility to a new artistic level. Peter Contarini added the staircase and series of loggias to his palazzo near the end of the 1400’s. The staircase and ...
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November 19, 2009
- Novelists aren’t journalists. Research for a novel isn’t the same as researching a journalistic article.I’d have thought that was too obvious to need stating. But then I became a published novelist, and I realized that people thought the two things were rather the same.I was a journalist for almost 20 years before my first novel was published. THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM is a crime novel ...
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November 17, 2009
- In 1966, when I was ten years old, my dad heard the voice of God commanding him to give up his career in business and become a Christian writer. As a result, he packed up our family and we took off to travel the world so he could gain inspiration for his books. We had many adventures, such as escaping out of Egypt right before the 6 Day War, smuggling Bibles into communist countries, and ...
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November 14, 2009
- As a child, the only trip my parents took me on was to Southern China, to visit my dying grandmother. My parents spent months applying for various travel documents, retrieving permits from the local police and standing in long lines for days to buy the train tickets. When we had to spend a night in a hotel, the clerk not only demanded that my parents show all kind of official permits, she also ...
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November 13, 2009
- You all know how much I love brides, and on this last trip to Venice, I watched a particularly gorgeous wedding party having their photos taken in Piazza San Marco. They were happily chatting in both English and Japanese. The mother of the bride's kimono was absolutely gorgeous. And look how delighted they all seem to be!To see more photos of the wedding party, check out my home ...
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