Visionaries: The Real Tango Diva: An Interview with Marina Palmer
Author Marina Palmer stopped her moving feet long enough to give us an inside peek into her dancing, her new book, and what she’s doing now.
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Post-writing pampering
Where do I go after pouring my heart, soul, and wisdom out in a travel guide? Thailand! Where else? And because this writer deserves a stellar, first-class experience to soothe my aching shoulder muscles from being hunched over a computer for months and months, I’m going to spend a week at the Banyan Tree Resorts…
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Impromptu Celebration
Spontaneous acts of enjoyment have not been on my “to do” list for quite a while. But now that the book is done, my shoulders feel lighter and my fingers are ready to dial long-lost friends. So, I took the opportunity to slap a celebration together, when my friend Mark Wiser came to visit from…
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Culture: Zagreb, Croatia: The Best Blind Date
by Sarah Naimark From the window, Zagreb appeared dreary and blurred. Our train lugged itself through a dingy urban strip into the station and I grimaced: ten minutes ahead of schedule. I nudged Anna, my younger sister and champion sleeper, to wake her after the long trip. She frowned and stretched. Ugh, I thought. Even…
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Destination Review: Ljubljana, Slovenia: You Don’t Have to Pronounce It to Like It
by Sarah Naimark The unexpected is something we can forget to love. The secure ritual of daily life in consistent surroundings provides a warm familiarity that can be hard to cast off. This, interestingly enough, extends to our travel selves as well. We seek what we know, or at least what we can envision, chasing…
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Meet my baby!
Motherhood has never been something I’ve dreamt about. On no account have I had romantic notions of a darling baby cooing while we gently sway in a rocking chair. Writing has always been my inspiration-the alchemy of raw thoughts into golden prose. Since I was little I loved scribbling down my rudimentary thoughts. First it…
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My Opus is written
682 pages, 50 chapters, seven months, many glasses of champagne in foreign cities, rewrite after rewrite, and here I am. I have finished my great opus. For the next few days I’ll be going through and checking for mistakes and inconsistencies. I have to admit that I kinda lost track of the 50 places. I…
