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Often you hear someone say, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” I suspect it’s true. In fact, creativity books often advise one to take several ideas and combine them in interesting ways to come up with a new approach to problem solving, challenges or innovative thinking. This thought...
My traveling buddy, Peggy, and I were elevated to great excitement when we learned late last summer that the Chicago Architectural Foundation planned a tour for members of the newly opened Poetry Foundation office in River North in Chicago. We had both read about what sounded like a well...
by Guest Blogger, Peggy DePersia “Everything is made out of magic”….or so it is believed in Camden, Maine. In fact, this quote is etched on a stone laid into a path that marks the street level entrance to the Camden library. I mention the street level entrance because Camden’s sense of it’s own...
Experiencing Chicago from the water is a whole different experience than from land. After crossing the lake with several hours with only sea and sky surrounding us, the hint of the skyline was a welcome and stunning view. It seemed impossible to me that what appeared to be tumbled piles of...
I am an absolute sucker for castles. When my husband and I got married a lifetime ago, we did the obligatory Europe on $5 to $10 a day trip, using the money we got as wedding gifts. We spent the first two weeks traveling up and down England and Scotland visiting a “castle a day.” […]
Lord Byron wrote to his Mother from Sintra calling it, “The village is perhaps in every respect, the most delightful in Europe.” Whether this is still true or not remains to be seen, but it is a lovely spot. The tiny town, about an hour outside of Lisbon, felt to me like Disneyland, only it...
Mosterio dos Jeronimos Don’t go to Lisbon without visiting two major tourist destinations—a monastery and a museum, an easy walk from each other outside of the main Lisbon area. The Mosterio dos Jeronimos, the grandest building in Lisbon, is built over the site of a small chapel raised...
When I tell people that my husband and I love Paris and have been to the City of Light probably a dozen times, I often get asked, “Is there something you do on every trip? ” In fact, this happened recently when we were in Paris, standing in line out side Sainte Chapelle,...
Kate Dernocoeur, guest blogger My first arrival in Prague was by train, a lucky happenstance. In that way, this bowl of a city was delivered to me from the rim of the flat plains surrounding it like Brigadoon appearing from the mists. Working as a teaching assistant for Western Michigan...
It was over two years ago that I visited Angkor Wat in Cambodia, but the images and the mystery of the ancient Khmer capital still haunt me. I can vividly picture the dramatic rock temples, the massive and tangled over grown jungle and the extensive grounds of this vast temple complex....