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The Introvert's Corner/Psychology Today The quiet blog .
Widow's Walk/Psychology Today The challenging blog.
Flyover America The fun while it lasted blog.
The Introvert's Corner/Psychology Today The quiet blog .
Widow's Walk/Psychology Today The challenging blog.
Flyover America The fun while it lasted blog.
AMAZON LESSON NO.1: IT RAINS IN THE RAIN FOREST/DALLAS MORNING NEWS
NEAR IQUITOS, Peru — It rains my first day. Hard. Guests and guides stand along railings or sit on steps, staring out at the Tahuayo River and sheets of rain, gamely telling each other, “Well, it is a rain forest.” Nearby, a generator grinds loudly, the sound working our nerves. The environmentally sensitive Tahuayo Lodge uses solar panels for power, but it’s raining. Hard.
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NEAR IQUITOS, Peru — It rains my first day. Hard. Guests and guides stand along railings or sit on steps, staring out at the Tahuayo River and sheets of rain, gamely telling each other, “Well, it is a rain forest.” Nearby, a generator grinds loudly, the sound working our nerves. The environmentally sensitive Tahuayo Lodge uses solar panels for power, but it’s raining. Hard.
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WILLA CATHER COUNTRY/THE TOAST
Growing up in the heart of New York City, I hardly believed places like Nebraska and Kansas were real; they sounded as foreign to me as Madagascar and Timbuktu. I took my first cross-country drive at age 19 and was immediately and irreversibly enchanted by the cows and cornfields, enormous sky and straight, hypnotic highways of America’s heartland.
So naturally I signed up for the “Literature of the Midwest” class in college, where I first read O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, whose most famous works--O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark—are some of literature’s most evocative portraits of life on the prairie. (For grownups, that is. Little House on the Prairie these ain’t.)
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Growing up in the heart of New York City, I hardly believed places like Nebraska and Kansas were real; they sounded as foreign to me as Madagascar and Timbuktu. I took my first cross-country drive at age 19 and was immediately and irreversibly enchanted by the cows and cornfields, enormous sky and straight, hypnotic highways of America’s heartland.
So naturally I signed up for the “Literature of the Midwest” class in college, where I first read O Pioneers! by Willa Cather, whose most famous works--O Pioneers!, My Antonia, and The Song of the Lark—are some of literature’s most evocative portraits of life on the prairie. (For grownups, that is. Little House on the Prairie these ain’t.)
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STORM-WATCHING ON THE OREGON COAST/DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Good weather almost spoiled our vacation.
We were here for sideways rain, howling wind, pounding waves and roiling seas, and all we were getting was drizzle. It wasn’t great weather, but it wasn’t bad enough — we wanted the kind of weather that usually spoils a holiday; we were visiting the Oregon coast in the middle of winter specifically to experience the power of a coastal storm.
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Good weather almost spoiled our vacation.
We were here for sideways rain, howling wind, pounding waves and roiling seas, and all we were getting was drizzle. It wasn’t great weather, but it wasn’t bad enough — we wanted the kind of weather that usually spoils a holiday; we were visiting the Oregon coast in the middle of winter specifically to experience the power of a coastal storm.
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LOOKING FOR MOOMINVALLEY/Medium
“Tales from Moominvalley” is dedicated — with a line drawing of a little girl crouched by a small animal — “To Sophia.” I like to imagine it was written for me.
But it wasn’t. Sophia Jansson is niece of Tove Jansson, who wrote the Moomin series of books, perhaps the most famous books most Americans have never heard of.
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“Tales from Moominvalley” is dedicated — with a line drawing of a little girl crouched by a small animal — “To Sophia.” I like to imagine it was written for me.
But it wasn’t. Sophia Jansson is niece of Tove Jansson, who wrote the Moomin series of books, perhaps the most famous books most Americans have never heard of.
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MORE TRAVEL
5 Reasons Why a Retreat is Good For Your Business/Entrepreneur
Cleveland Classics: Five stylishly repurposed buildings/AOL Travel
INTROVERSION AND PSYCHOLOGY
The Introvert's Guide to Getting Hired/Success
Nine Signs That You Might Be An Introvert/Huffington Post
Are Men Better at Selling Themselves?/gradPSYCH
When Terrible Times Make You Better/Dallas Morning News
The Power of Self-Compassion/Dallas Morning News
Defense Mechanisms vs Conservation/Sierra
HISTORY AND PRESERVATION
Black History in North Dallas/Dallas Morning News
Barbara Baer Capitman: South Beach's Art Deco Hero/PreservationNation
Mildred Bennett: The Unlikely Preserver of Willa Cather's Hometown/PreservationNation
Ruth Abram: Explaining Today through Stories of Yesterday/PreservationNation
Kate Clifford Larson: Helping Put Harriet Tubman on the Map/PreservationNation
Estelle Axton: A Woman, A Place, and the Memphis Sound/PreservationNation
How a Ladies' Garden Club in Texas Helped Its Old Town Blossom/PreservationNation
Emily Warren Roebling: A Cornerstone in the Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge/PreservationNation
Digging a Garden, Unearthing a Treasure: The Rediscovery of Dunaway Gardens/PreservationNation
5 Reasons Why a Retreat is Good For Your Business/Entrepreneur
Cleveland Classics: Five stylishly repurposed buildings/AOL Travel
INTROVERSION AND PSYCHOLOGY
The Introvert's Guide to Getting Hired/Success
Nine Signs That You Might Be An Introvert/Huffington Post
Are Men Better at Selling Themselves?/gradPSYCH
When Terrible Times Make You Better/Dallas Morning News
The Power of Self-Compassion/Dallas Morning News
Defense Mechanisms vs Conservation/Sierra
HISTORY AND PRESERVATION
Black History in North Dallas/Dallas Morning News
Barbara Baer Capitman: South Beach's Art Deco Hero/PreservationNation
Mildred Bennett: The Unlikely Preserver of Willa Cather's Hometown/PreservationNation
Ruth Abram: Explaining Today through Stories of Yesterday/PreservationNation
Kate Clifford Larson: Helping Put Harriet Tubman on the Map/PreservationNation
Estelle Axton: A Woman, A Place, and the Memphis Sound/PreservationNation
How a Ladies' Garden Club in Texas Helped Its Old Town Blossom/PreservationNation
Emily Warren Roebling: A Cornerstone in the Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge/PreservationNation
Digging a Garden, Unearthing a Treasure: The Rediscovery of Dunaway Gardens/PreservationNation