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Poaching, Magic Potties, and Kicking Bird
by Kimberly Quinn Smith
We landed in Memphis in time to head to the indoor
pool for fifteen well-earned minutes. In fact, after repeated arrivals at hotels
where the pools closed by 10:00 pm, that fifteen minutes spent the right way
could do wonders after a long journey.
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 Conquering
the Great Indoors: Family Fun
at the Great Wolf Lodge
by
Teresa Thompson
 The buzz
began late last summer when we received the first promotional piece in the mail.
A few weeks later, the television ads started popping up. Then, my children and
I drooled over the website. Soon, parents were talking. “Did you hear about
Great Wolf Lodge?”
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 A
Tribute to William Gottlieb:
Jazz Photographer Extraordinaire
by
Rich Gottlieb
 My
father didn’t have a pious bone in his body, although he did read the New York
Times religiously. You won’t be getting any men of the cloth today although I,
like my dad, am a man of the paper.
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 On
and Off the Beaten Path:
Final
article in a Special Three-Part Series on Poland and the Holocaust
By Carole
Bell
Ford
If you’ve been following
this series, you know that I have been involved with research related to a
particular group of women, Holocaust survivors, mostly from Poland. And it was a
conference on Women in the Holocaust that took me to Poland, where I told
“Lusia’s Story”.
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Stalagmites,
Chevy Chase, and Leopard Skin
by Kim Smith
 My
husband turned forty this year and to surprise him I planned a trip across the
country. He had been talking about seeing the Grand Canyon since we met in
college, and as life is too short not to live one’s dreams, I bit the bullet and
began an intimate relationship with priceline.com.
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On and Off the Beaten Path:
Part 2 of a Special Three Part Series:
The Vanished Ghettos of Warsaw and
Łódź
by
Carole Bell Ford
As a result of her work as a
travel agent and consultant to many top entertainment industry figures, my
daughter Julie has contacts all over the world. For our trip to Poland, she put
me in touch with an agency, located in Krakow, which customized our trip. One of
their agents arranged for our car rental and for our hotels in Warsaw, Łódź and
Lublin.
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Feeling
Lucky at Mohegan Sun:
Connecticut's Casino Comes To Life
by
Teresa Thompson
 People
laugh when I tell them I take my family to Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun Casino for
a vacation. But, to be completely honest, we all love it there. And by “we”, I
mean the four generations of my family.
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article.
 Our
Lady of Guadeloupe, Carburetors and Telephone Card by
Anne Quinn
 I’m
having a love affair with Mexico. I’m in love with the butterscotch
countryside, colors of bronze and gold dripping like frosting over a light
chocolate cake. I’m in love with the people who are often golden themselves,
small, sweet and sensuous.
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Kickin'
It Up in the Amish Country:
Pennsylvania's Warm Welcome for Families
by
Teresa Thompson
 It’s
never too early to start planning your summer vacation. In fact, you should
already have it planned. Travel experts agree the best time to plan summer
travel is during the doldrums of winter. The explanation for this is two-fold...
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On and Off the Beaten Path:
Introduction to a Special, Three Part Series: Luisa's Poland-Not the Usual
Travel Story
By Carole
Bell
Ford
The earlier writing bleeds
through despite layer upon layer of new script…and
like a palimpsest, for many elderly survivors, memories of the Holocaust bleed
through layer upon layer of experiences. A lifetime of layers that should have
obscured the earlier ones...
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 The Temptation of Belief: A Buddhist Enters
the Christian Realm
by Bethany Saltman
 Last
month I went to southern California to visit my cousin K., the born-again
Christian who promised to show me around the church scene there and take good
care of me in the seventh month of my first pregnancy...
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 High-Tech
Boxes in Drag: The Fisher Center for the
Performing Arts at Bard College in Annondale-on-Hudson
by Ray Curran
This April will mark the third
anniversary of the opening of what almost certainly remains the most noteworthy
new building in New York's mid-Hudson River valley in recent years. Designed by
Frank Gehry, one of the leading 'star-chitects' today, I believe that as
architecture it deserves only mixed reviews...
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Vermont Winter Wonderland:
A Great Ski Vacation for the Non-Skier
by
Teresa Thompson
I don’t like to ski, but I love
to go skiing. Let me explain. Every winter I make the obligatory pilgrimage to
Vermont’s picturesque Green Mountains to satisfy my husband’s basic need to
strap a snowboard onto his feet and pummel down steep terrain.
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On and Off the Beaten Path:
Puglia
By Carole
Bell
Ford
Steve and I met when we were
teaching at a Junior High School in Brooklyn, in the late 1960s. During those
years we and our colleagues-friends, other young schoolteachers, used to
frequent an Italian restaurant in Little Italy called Puglia’s.
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 Dog Shit in My Bagua:
Thoughts on Feng Shui and
Panic Attacks
by Erin Quinn It had been six years, six
beautiful long years, since I had my last panic attack. Okay, maybe not every
moment of those six years was beautiful—there were the usual trials and
tribulations, stumbling blocks and successes—but they were, for the most part
panic-free...
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 Excerpt from Into the Unknown:
The Remarkable Life of Hans Kraus
by
Susan E.B. Schwartz
The
following excerpt describes the 1941 first ascent of High Exposure by Hans
Kraus. Rock and Ice Magazine, Senior Contributing Editor, Matt Samet, said
the section contains one of the best descriptions of climbing that he’s ever
read...
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On and Off the Beaten Path: Tuscany and Umbria
By Carole
Bell
Ford
Unlike Bologna’s elusive center, we
easily found our way back to the autostrada. Soon we were headed southwest into
Tuscany where the cypresses became more prominent, the land more hilly, tunnels
more frequent, and soon were in mountainous country once again. This time, in
the Appenines...
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The Affair
by Kim Smith
I would strongly advise that
anyone with even a hint of Attention Deficit Disorder in their system, or
anywhere along their ancestral line not attempt to throw a surprise party. My
husband just turned 40 this past weekend and I had a rather large party for
him...
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A Tale of Two Cruises:
From Canada to Cozumel, One Family's Adventure On Two Very Different Ships
by
Teresa Thompson
I love to travel—anytime, anywhere—but I’ve never been a
big fan of cruising. It all began when my parents took me on my first cruise
during my senior year of college. My whole family was going, a short five day
jaunt to the beautiful island of Bermuda, leaving from the New York Pier. A half
an hour from New York, I discovered it. I suffered from mal de mer, yes,
seasickness...
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It was Christmas Day
by Erin Quinn
It was Christmas Day. The new sleds were
round, waxy, garishly colored plastic saucers—neon orange, yellow and green—one
for each of our three children. A present from Grandpa. They had played
with their new blocks, skimmed through their new books, occupied themselves
drawing with art sets that Le Pere Noel had kindly left for them under the tree,
while I went for a post-consumer jog around the village.
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Road Warrior
by Erin Quinn
After I returned from Ireland in the winter of 1994, I decided that it was time
to put my foot down: no more waitressing, bartending, catering, buffet-girling,
cocktailing. I was through...
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Bedrest and Pushmowing:
Lawns and Babies Wait for No Woman
by Erin Quinn
I have a friend who once had to de-string his
guitar and tape it to the back of his closet so that he could concentrate on
studying for his upcoming Regents exam...
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Magnificent Obsession
by Erin Quinn
I almost resented the fact
that he was coming. It was like knowing your love was arriving, only you had no
billowing dress or chic hat to greet him with. From the moment I began reading
Ironweed, William Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a wino on skid
row in Albany, I felt as if I entered a world that I knew...
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Ma Vie en Rose:
A Literary Birth Anouncement
by Erin Quinn
This was the first time that I didn't want to leave the hospital. During my
previous visits to the maternity ward, the nurses had no sooner cleaned off the
baby when I announced that it was time to take the I.V. out of my arm and hand
me a pen to sign the discharge papers. But with two little perogies...
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