I wish I could be a male when I travel. I am sixty-five years old and travel solo. These are my personal experiences and might not apply to all female solo travelers. If I were a male: I could
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I wish I could be a male when I travel. I am sixty-five years old and travel solo. These are my personal experiences and might not apply to all female solo travelers. If I were a male: I could
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Four of us are walking the Camino de Santiago, the Portuguese Way, in March. The group we hooked up with gave us a reasonable price which includes hotel accommodations, breakfast every day, two dinners, and transportation of our luggage to
Read moreCulture affects our views of reality. It provides the mental concepts by which people perceive, interpret, analyze, and explain events in the world around them. JAMES G. PEOPLES What is American culture? Japanese culture, which I absorbed into
Read moreWhy are bunnies a significant part of Easter? Easter is upon us once again, and we are being bombarded by chocolate bunnies, chocolate eggs, and dyed egg kits. What do bunnies and eggs have to do with Easter? It all
Read moreI am a six-year-old little girl with a folded piece of Kleenex bobby-pinned to the top of my head, sitting in my family church pew. I always forget to bring my chapel veil. My father gets us up every Sunday
Read moreTomorrow is Valentine’s Day, and this is the poem I would send to my Valentine, my husband. Always Valentine I’ll always be the one who looks at you, And sees you in a fond and loving light; I’ll always know
Read moreWho is St Valentine? Was he a temple priest who lived in the 1400s and beheaded by Claudius II for helping Christian couples get hitched? At the time, men were serving in the Roman army and were not allowed to
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My mornings start with a walk at 7:00 with my dog and two friends. I spend time talking about politics and family. We converse with other walkers in the park about local topics, a new restaurant that just opened, the
Read more“So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.” ― Virginia Woolf The writing workshop for newbies and non-published authors. Discover your inner
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Christmas is over. You undressed your tree by taking off the ornaments and strings of lights and placing them in their designated plastic containers labeled “Christmas decorations.” You took your tree and put it in a “tree bag” or box
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