A family from Hanover, NH takes a gap year (9 months) around the world trip! Definitely can relate to this, except I did it as a single parent with 3 teenage girls!! Sophie’s relationship with the truth has improved steadily over the years. The underlying stubbornness has not changed much. One of the most appealing…
Paul Theroux is one of my two favorite travel writers along with Pico Iyer. I have read all his nonfiction books. I read this book when it first came out (it’s a Mexican journey but focuses quite a bit on the South of Mexico) and felt compelled to revisit it after reading The Oaxaca Journal…
Supposedly a book about ferns, which it does a good job with. Delves into a brief history of Mesoamerica, specifically Oaxaca in typical Oliver Sacks fashion. Amateurs—lovers, in the best sense of the word Ferns had survived, with little change, for a third of a billion years. Other creatures, like dinosaurs, had come and gone,…
Tragicomic story about the famous food blogger remodeling his Paris apartment. On the surface it is a series of rants about the remodeling, but it delves into the psyche of the Parisian. It may help you navigate your life if one day you find yourself living long-term in Paris. The part of being French that…
A history lesson about a much forgotten (and ignored) genocide and how it was avenged. Also a very informative book about the geopolitics of Armenia, USSR, Ottoman empire and Germany in the World War I era. To the million and a half Armenians who perished at the hands of Ottoman Turks during the First World…
This book came to me through the On Being podcast. Anam Cara means “Soul Friend” in Gaelic. One should consider oneself very fortunate if there is even one of these in your life. Here are some highlights from the book that spoke to me. It is surely a book that one needs to read again…
The adult bald eagles have the salmon hunting down. The juveniles and the gulls are still learning.
Salvador Dali – “No way I’m returning to Mexico. I can’t stand being in a place more surreal than my paintings.” We will definitely be going back to Ciudad de Mexico and San Miguel de Allende.
A weekend fall farewell photography tour in the Kootenays, Canada. The larches are still holding on to their colors and their needles. In some places the aspens and cottonwoods are still braving the winter storms. It is fall’s last hurrah. The swan song, literally. Watch the video below. Just happened to stop at Sullivan Lake…