Elisa Batista, a mother and student of Chinese, helped found the parenting site, MotherTalkers.com, rants and raves on modern motherhood. Prior to the birth of her son, Aristotle, almost three years ago, she worked as a reporter for the technology website Wired News in San Francisco. She has also written for the Boston Herald and…
by Lesley Seacrist Hi, my name is Lesley and I am addicted to Mate. I can’t go one day without it. When I first started, I did it with a group of people, but when there is no one else—I still can’t resist. All my friends say that it is weird and the taste is…
by Janet Bein, Young at Heart Diva I didn’t think twice about inviting my daughter Orli to join me for a cruise of the Galapagos Islands. This opportunity to explore the equatorial waters off the coast of Ecuador was sufficiently tempting that she was willing to plead with her boss for some extra vacation days….
by Jennifer Anthony “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” Alfred Joyce Kilmer’s Trees has been a bit of a joke in my family ever since one of my brothers, then a shy teenager, was coerced into reciting it in front of our church’s congregation. We were young and…
by Cat Hubka I got the idea to travel long ago, on the back of my father’s motorcycle. My father was in the midst of his mid-life crisis, a spiritual and emotional breakdown that had flung our family to the winds, when he purchased a mid-sized Yamaha and began exploring the high country of Colorado…
by Avi Kramer When I arrived in Chaling on a steamy afternoon last August, I had expected rutted dirt roads sidelined by weathered telephone poles, a central meat and vegetable market, and embankments leading down to farm land and rolling hills. I was correct about the fields, acres of square plots, soggy rice paddies and…
by Victoria Shepherd Looking for a perfect weekend away from London, a way to add variety to your vacation, or perhaps a place to relax after a tiring business conference? Bath, and not the bubbly kind, is located just a brief train ride from the center of England’s capital. And by the end of 2004,…