Sixteen Packing Tips to Take YOu Anywhere ... except the NOrth POle I absolutely love to travel. I’ve been to such wide-ranging places as Tibet and the Amazon. I’ve traveled with kids and without, been on cruises and land tours, traveled independently by car and train, even rented homes and stayed in one spot for a while. So, you’d think that after all that experience, I’d come home after at least one trip and say, “I packed just what I needed for that ... VIEW POST
Asylums: More than Enough to Drive Women Crazy
We all know that women's rights have been late to the party. State laws didn't start allowing us to control our own earnings until the mid-nineteenth century, and in many states, women couldn't manage their own property after they were married. Laws prohibited women from doing things that men took for granted (like smoking in public or using contraception) on the pretext of "protecting women's health." Divorce, extremely difficult to obtain, was fraught with social and financial peril ... VIEW POST
Gone but not Forgotten: San Francisco’s Amazing Sutro Baths
Has winter weather got you fantasizing about splashing about in a fun-sized pool? If you Google "largest swimming pools in the world," you'll find a list of mind-boggling, ultra-luxurious, man-made complexes that resemble lagoons more than pools. Most are outside and are used for water sports like rowing and kayaking, with only limited sections open for swimmers. Few of them, by the way, can be found in the United States. But the "granddaddy" of such acquatic complexes did exist in America, ... VIEW POST
The Baltics: A Primer in Three Parts (Part Three)
Part Three - Estonia: A Captive People Sings its Way to Freedom Estonia is the smallest of the Baltic countries. It’s about one third the size of New York but has less than seven percent of that state’s population—talk about wide open spaces! So why would such a small country in both size and population be of interest to any larger foreign power? The answer lies in one word (or is it three?): Location, location, location. Estonia sits on the Gulf of Finland and is in fact just a ... VIEW POST
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