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Too Close To The Edge by Rich Adams
“We are going to step over this crevasse. I don’t think you will have to jump it, just step from this ledge over to the other one.” The deep gash in the rock ledge led from a cliff on our right to the...
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My Tale of Traveling With a Medical Mask
In recent years, I’ve seen on television, people traveling through airports wearing medical masks, but I hadn’t actually encountered anyone doing so, much less a person such as me! Well, after...
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The NeverEnding Story by Sherrie Hansen
For the past year, I’ve been living in a fantasy world. The scene is Loch Awe, Scotland, at a magical place called St. Conan’s Kirk. It’s a very real place, one that really exists – and not just in my...
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Interview with Ginger King, Author of “Carolina Wine Country Cooking”
What is your book about? It is all about cooking with the wines made in the Carolinas. Carolina Wine Country Cooking is meant to be a companion on the road, visiting wineries in the Carolinas and then...
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A Trip to Washington, DC by John E. Stack
Call me crazy, but I just returned from a trip to Washington, DC with a handful of adults and 140 eighth graders, thirteen and fourteen years old. Oh yeah, I teach middle school. We had four bus-loads...
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Inspirations for Wraithmoor Castle
My readers have asked me to tell them what inspired the appearance and mood, both inside and out, of the fictitious Wraithmoor Castle Inn in my book, SHE HAD TO KNOW. Having been fortunate enough to...
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No Greater Love… by John E. Stack
Last month I wrote about my wonderful, exciting trip to our nation’s capital with four buses of 8th grade students. It was cold and sometimes rainy but we still were able to see a lot of history. I...
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A Day in Turkey with the Hittites by Mickey Hoffman
One of the most fascinating ancient cultures (and given a few lines in the Bible) is the Hittite culture. But many details about that civilization are unknown. This makes them all the more fascinating,...
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Do You Speak French: Parlez-vous francais? By Calvin Davis
After studying French in high school, in college, and Graduate school before taking French lessons at private workshops, I landed in Paris prepared to speak French. Yet upon hearing Parisian natives...
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A Glimpse at Istanbul by Mickey Hoffman
I wanted to visit Istanbul because I just had to see the Aya Sofya. Ever since I first learned of this incredible building in an art history class, I felt a pull toward it. And a few decades later, I...
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Bikers Waving Etiquette – by Norm Brown
My brother and I took a long motorcycle trip a couple of weeks ago from Texas out to the mountains of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado. It was a great trip with cool camping weather at the...
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My Welcome Home — by Coco Ihle
On June 13th, I set off on a river cruise to Russia, Estonia and Finland, and returned to Florida on July 4th. My homecoming, however, wasn’t quite what I had planned. After about thirty hours without...
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Vanishing Architecture: Kula, Turkey — by Mickey Hoffman
The town of Kula has a population around 25,000 and is located south of Istanbul and SE of Izmir. Several years ago, I participated in an Earthwatch project which was designed to catalog traditional...
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Return to the Scene of the Crime — by Norm Brown
Way back in May of 2000 my son and I took a long cross country trip in a rented RV. We camped in some awesome national and state parks and took in a lot of tourist sites along our trek from Austin all...
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Trekking, Traipsing, and Writing by Carole Howard
I caught the travel bug from my husband, the intrepid former Peace Corps volunteer. Since I met him, this girl from the Bronx – who’d previously been as far as Niagara Falls – has done her fair share...
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Summer vacation…Finally!
This summer seems to have passed by in a blur. Once school finished, my daughters and I spent every day at the pool since my eldest daughter is involved in our local swim team. While this is great and...
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My New Impressions of Russia by Coco Ihle
When I was a child, my impressions of Russia included Soviet troops and missiles parading through Red Square and Nikita Khrushchev’s angry face on TV at the UN, air raids in our schools where we...
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Virgin Mary Slept Here? by Mickey Hoffman
Cappadocia lies in the south central region of the country and is famous partly for its landscape and partly due to the fact that for thousands of years, humans have made use of the natural caves as...
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Show Low, Arizona by John E. Stack
In July, I had the opportunity to participate in a mission trip to Arizona. Twenty-five people from ages 12 to 69 traveled to Show Low Arizona to the American Indian Christian Mission (AICM) to help in...
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Art is Art by Carole Howard
During our two months in Accra, Ghana in 2009, I started looking forward to our Saturday excursions to the beach, and to Bob’s sculptures, around Wednesday or Thursday. He always set up shop in the...
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