Browsing Through Books

More and more travel memoirs these days include chapters about food. And more and more books about cooking and food include exotic travel....

  Sara Taylor's book The Lauras hooked me immediately. It begins with teenaged Alex hearing her parents argue -- just like she ...

I rarely write about the dangers and downsides of travel. Probably because I rarely have negative experiences, myself. That doesn’t mean ...

The New York Times: Footsteps As a travel blogger, I completely understand how a place can shape a person's writing. It's wh...

I've been toying with the idea of writing my memoir for a few years now. I've written parts; vignettes of different moments that ...

As a girl, I LOVED watching the Carol Burnett Show . The entire cast felt magical to me and the returning characters Carol and the gang ...

Last night, my daughter and I had the privilege of hearing Michael Kraus speak about his childhood spent in concentration camps. He's...