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Nov.05.2012
There's an exercise you can do when you feel confused or lost or indecisive. You imagine the place where you feel confident, located, clear. You just close your eyes, breathe calmly, and let the image of that clear, wonderful place come to mind. It's the place where you are happy, the...
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Nov.03.2012
My husband bought me the coat for Christmas two years ago. Its military style and high collar are the embodiment of an aesthetic he loves. As for me, I liked the coat’s length, and the fabric it’s made of, warm enough to wear in winter, but light enough to serve in other seasons. ...
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Oct.30.2012
Travel Himachal - a comprehensive guide to the most spectacular destination in Himachal Pradesh in India will be available free today (30th oct) and tomorrisited ow at Amazon as a promotion.
My other book - Murmur of The Lonely Brook is set on Himachal a land of monasteries, snow clapped peaks,...
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Oct.29.2012
From San Francisco to Rome, from Istanbul to Jerusalem and the villages of Palestine, Delphine confronts with love and courage a changing, sometimes violent, world.
"The allure of this narrative is deceptive in that it offers a cunning misdirection. Apparently, it is about a young, beautiful...
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Oct.28.2012
My train from Brussels pulled into La Gare du Nord the day before Bastille Day, 1992. I was parched from oohing and aahing over the countryside, and at last, the city I had dreamed about all during my college art history classes.
I couldn't believe I was there at last, and all on my own. My first-...
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Oct.26.2012
In 2007, I took my daughter, my friend, and my cousin on a weeklong trip to Paris. We rented an atelier in the 6th, we shopped, we ate, we toured museums, and we even bought tickets on a bateau mouche for a nighttime tour of the Seine to see all the important monuments lit up. I had a...
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Oct.25.2012
I couldn't live in Paris.
Apart from the fact that I don't speak French, I just wouldn't be able to live my day to day there. It's too much for daily life.
My senses would be lavished all the time. The food, the views, the art, the beautiful people, the monuments. My God, even a quaint...
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Oct.25.2012
The last time I went to Paris it was spring, and flower petals fell onto the sidewalks and streets making them pink and white and slick, waiting to be crushed beneath Italian Leather Boots and German sports cars and the bicycle tires of boys carrying bags of baguettes. English humor...
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Oct.22.2012
Tucked in the middle of Southern France, with the Pyrenees rimming the horizon on a clear day, is Durban. We enter from the West. Thank God we had a GPS, because even with our Michelin map, this is remote country side. We are wrapped in that iconic patchwork of many-hued, squared-...
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Oct.16.2012
I love everything I'm hearing about my friend and colleague expat-repat writing coach and Thirsty author Kristin Bair O'Keeffe's monthly 38Write series of three-day global writing workshops.
I especially admire her cutting-edge use of Twitter and Pinterest to create a real-time, web-based...
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