They Pay You to Do What?

December 1988: I’ve got no job, no money, and seemingly no prospects. Maybe you’d rate digging around in an organic vegetable plot in western Ireland as a fantastic prospect, but not me. I can tell you that organic gardening is bloody hard work for little reward. Rain… mud… frostbitten toes. Slugs… snails… rabbits. The end result? Lettuces and cabbages that resemble lace curtains.

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10 Travel Treasures

“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – St. Augustine Some people salivate when they hear the phrase “luxury travel.” But what is luxury? Prices ramped up to exclude the proletariat aren’t desirable to me. Even with a lottery win, I wouldn’t want to ski at Gstaad,…

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A 5-Star Lifestyle

“Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine December 1988: No job, no money, and seemingly no prospects. Maybe you’d rate delving around an organic vegetable plot in western Ireland as a fantastic prospect, but not me. I can tell you that organic gardening…

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6 Ways to Cure Writer’s Diarrhea

Writer’s Diarrhea

Sometimes the problem is the opposite of writer’s block; it’s writer’s diarrhea. “Anybody can have ideas – the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.” – Mark Twain When faced with a 2,500-word assignment, I’m powerless to prevent at…

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8 Great International Getaways

“Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.” – Ella Maillart By Steenie Harvey What makes for a great vacation? Magic, thrills, and adventure, yes. But for the…

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