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An Island Getaway in Alaska
The plane lifted off from Anchorage, Alaska, on a stunningly beautiful May morning for an unusually placid flight to St Paul Island, 750...
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Maine Miles
Maine! That crinkled shoreline. Suppose you are a seagull. You decide to fly from the southern end of Maine’s coastline where it meets...
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Word Flights—Touching Down in the Hearts of Others
I was twelve. I had ridden my blue bike with multi-colored plastic handle bar streamers to the Woolworth Store to buy my favorite...
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Out of the Blue
Are you, like me, a devotee of World War II history? Let’s say, for the sake of argument, you are, and one day, out of the blue, you...
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Miami Beach
Tired of shielding my face in a scarf from chilling wind gusts that a typical New England winter day brought, my husband and I decided to...
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Memories of a Surfboard
In 1978 I was 11 years old and touring the East Coast with my father Marvin Beach. We set out in his Motor home; a 40-foot Vogue Coach,...
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Cape May Has It All - Even a Radio Station!
Our spring is doing the two-step here in Cape May as the temps plummeted last week, once again. Nevertheless, I choose to heed the tulips...
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What I Learned Being Paid to Eat
Want a good writerly side job? You’re going to eat anyway. You’re going to write anyway. Get paid to do both! In the early 1990s, my...
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