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What next?

What’s my power, now that I’m eight years retired from a job I thought of as heaven — dancing with children from around the world? Who am I now that I’m closer to whatever heaven represents — an end to being me? My mother died at 89, Dad at 81…

Retirement

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What next?
What next?

Pinned

Gone to Sea

It’s been a blessing, this idea of going to sea. It came to us from Ireland, not COVID. A year ago, when international travel was still a thing, we came home from watching sunsets over foreign seas to explore waters to the west. …

Covid Diaries

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Gone to Sea
Gone to Sea

May 4, 2021

A Man of Morocco

This story is from Before the Pandemic, when we were still traveling overseas. Honored as best non-fiction and printed by the Nassau Review for distribution in May of 2020, it wound up boxed and locked in a closet when most of New York shut down and the journal lost its…

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A Man of Morocco
A Man of Morocco

Nov 4, 2020

Waking to a new day

What of the values the flag represents?

Boating

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Waking to a new day
Waking to a new day

Oct 21, 2019

Cruising the heart of Ireland

Discovering the green & the blue — “Congratulations on your 50th trip on the River Shannon!” read a banner over the desk in the boat office as we arrived. The congratulations were not for us. This was our first. Having circled Ireland’s outer edges two years ago, we were heading for a passage through the midlands, along…

Travel

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Cruising the heart of Ireland
Cruising the heart of Ireland

Sep 27, 2019

In sight of Croagh Patrick

Wandering western Ireland — First thing I checked each morning, out the upstairs window facing west: Can we see Croagh Patrick? Is its elegant triangle on the horizon? Do shrubs point their shadows across the fields in its direction? Or is it obscured by the weather? It’s Ireland, mid-September. Croagh Patrick is Ireland’s holiest…

Travel

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In sight of Croagh Patrick
In sight of Croagh Patrick

Apr 2, 2019

Where are you now?

my aunt asks when I call. “We’re still in Lisbon.” “Still?” She says, with a tone that speaks an unasked question: What do you do for so long, in a place you’ve been before?

Memoir

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Where are you now?
Where are you now?

Feb 17, 2019

Snow and birds

We were lucky to get out of town. First, I worried about the government shutdown and back-ups at the airport. Then, flights were canceled…

Travel

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Snow and birds
Snow and birds

Nov 12, 2017

Lisbon answers a question or two

Leaving home, I had some questions. After loving Lisbon a year ago, we came again this year to dwell a bit. We unpacked our bags to enjoy two weeks without an early-morning launch toward another destination. …

Lisbon

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Lisbon answers a question or two
Lisbon answers a question or two

Nov 30, 2016

What caught my eye…

…in Tuscany’s October or Paris in November? Last time, my first, Tuscany was April, and May came along in Paris. They were warm and sunny, lush and green. That time, I was charmed by the somber weight of time in Tuscany’s hill towns. …

Paris

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What caught my eye…
What caught my eye…
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