La Flaneur: Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Reading Time: 6 minutes Springtime in Paris: La flaneur A single French word sums up my travel ambitions: flaneur. It means someone who wanders
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From Cloudberries to Chanterelles
Reading Time: 7 minutes Reflections on Baltic Tourism and the Helsinki Herring Festival Click here to view the Scholarworks Article feature. The Helsinki Herring
Lay Claim to Your Own Life: Reading and Writing
Reading Time: 2 minutes Reading and writing are my addictions. I read to escape. I read to go deeper, to focus, to travel. I
Procida: Fantasy Island
Reading Time: 4 minutes Procida at last! Isn’t this what I have come for? Meeting my fantasy friends from the film Il Postino? It
Memoir in Progress
Reading Time: 4 minutes “Tell me the landscape in which you live and I will tell you who you are.” Ortega y Gasset On
Palermo: Cultural City of 2018
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I don’t know what to do first, I just watch people and pick out someone who looks like they
Ischia: Elena Ferrante Goes to Paradise. And so do I, alas.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next day, a Monday, arrives like a hangover. It is slightly rainy and gray, and everyone is gone. There
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Gritty Naples: Full of life, but watch your wallet
Reading Time: 4 minutes Naples has welcomed American Sailors since time immemorial (at least since World War II) and it still welcomes everyone, that
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