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New York. New Me.

I couldn’t stop smiling, my enormous grin was permanently chiseled onto my face; my heart wouldn’t cease its drumming in my chest, it was as if King Kong himself was pounding his huge fist throughout...

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My Eyes Are Open

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Post-Vacation Appreciation Disease

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Peace at Last

When my parents first proposed a twenty two day road trip from our native Arizona to Florida I was skeptical. We...

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Survival, Much Like Smiling, Is Universal

My time in Cambodia had brought me many challenges. I had a running fever with no access to trustworthy medical care, I was fumbling with cultural differences and customs, and we worked long days teaching...

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Finding Peace in Hiroshima

We stared with hands clasped over our open mouths and eyes glued to the figures before us.  They were bathed in the red of their own blood, burned skin, and the flames that surrounded them.  Their clothes...

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Old New World

Bullet holes still dot the walls outside the Pergamon Museum...

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Encapsulating a Timeless Moment: The Petoskey Stone

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Murder On The Prospect

Visiting the setting of a book you have recently read may be completely different from what you imagined.  My imagined setting of Crime and Punishment, I discovered, was completely different...

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