Holly Payne is a novelist and screenwriter living in San Francisco. She is the author of two novels, The Virgin’s Knot and The Sound of Blue. “The Virgin’s Knot” is the critically acclaimed story of a magically gifted Turkish woman whose faithful virgin hands create prized dowries for lucky brides, something that the weaver herself…
by Stephanie Block Kidnapped. You’ll be kidnapped. Cartels will kidnap you. Cocoa and kidnapping, the druglord breakfast cereal. The prize inside the box is you, bound and gagged, wishing you’d gone to South Beach instead. This is how Colombia perched in my mind; a clawing bird ready to imprison me in its bleak and powdery…
by Suzanne Wright With its cosmopolitan cities, Roman temples, stunning hotels, and the grandeur of the Sahara, this North African Country holds numerous surprises for visitors. A message has been delivered to my room, in French. With my rusty, rudimentary high school language skills I can’t quite make it out, so I call the front…
by Julie Ferro Aletch Glacier, high in the Swiss Alps. With both trepidation and excitement, I allow myself to be tied to eight other people, single-file, about three feet apart from one another. Our guide, the very experienced and well-known Art Furrer, ties himself at the head of the line to form a ten-person dragon….
by Kristin Pedroja My friend Hannah and I had tossed around the idea of a holiday in Montenegro for months. Both of us live in Slovenia, and living here inevitably opens up a curiosity about the other former Yugoslav nations. The word Montenegro, or Cerna gora (black mountain), conjured up exotic visions of pristine beaches,…
by Sheila O’Connor If you’re up for some digging into the past, you might want to consider heading to Quebec’s fossil garden. We all depend on our history. And one place Divas can discover it is the Parc National de Miguasha in the Gaspésie region of northern Quebec. This is a world-renowned fossil site, containing…
