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trapped beneath the volcanic ash cloud
I’ve been stuck in Belfast for days and there’s no end in sight because the volcanic ash cloud from the spewing Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland is just sitting over Ireland. It’s so strange and...
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belfast
I spent about 20 days in Ireland (six days care of the volcanic ash cloud that hovered over Irish air space). I had the fabulous gig of blogging about my experiences for The Atlantic. I loved every...
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fear and longing in scotland
Here’s the beginning of a piece I wrote for a reading about Drink that was held in a local bar. When I was twenty I got on a plane and went to Edinburgh, Scotland, to live for a year. It was 1978 and I...
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tongass national forest — alaska
At the end of May my husband Tim Gallagher and I took a trip to southeast Alaska where we explored a bit of the Inside Passage and the Tongass National Forest. We were on a small boat run by The Boat...
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being trapped beneath the volcanic ash cloud
Everything is fodder for a story. Here’s the beginning of one I wrote for perceptivetravel.com. “When I was supposed to board a plane to go back home I was sitting in a five–star hotel in Belfast,...
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wanderlust
Okay. I suffer from this. As far as I can tell it’s incurable and the symptoms grow more pronounced as time passes. It comes from the German wandern (to hike) and lust (desire). I think I fall in the...
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green burial piece of mine on salon.com
Looking for a Greener Kind of Death: As Americans get savvier about environmental consequences, why aren’t they embracing natural burial? There was a naked body wrapped in yards and yards of...
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balancing rocks
For months now I’ve been seeing rocks stacked three or four high on my way to the gym, which is located in a suburban mall. The first time I saw the rocks I was with my daughter and I brought the car...
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Biking Around Potsdam
On a cool, misty Fourth of July my daughter and I took the train from Braunschweig to Potsdam to meet Kevin Kennedy our guide for a four-hour bike ride through the city. Although I was yearning for a...
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September 23, 2011
Off to Wales today where I will meet up with bloggers from around the world to write about the country. We had to choose different tracks — adventure, culture, or food — and because I figured we’d...
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