Write & Tour in the Veneto: It’s Word/Play Week!
Travel the Write Way Presents Word/Play Week May 23 – 30, 2011 (The writing workshop week that’s not just for writers!) Hosted by Linda & Tim Jenkins Word One Have you ever written in a real palazzo? Or eaten in a restaurant that still features recipes from the Middle Ages? Or marvelled at buildings with Palladian windows — that were…
Arrivederci, 2010!
New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. — Mark Twain You have to admit it: 2010 was a strange year. The economy’s not much better for us little folks, even though Wall Street is having a banner year (with banner bonuses, no…
Dream of Italy — I do!
Kathy McCabe, Editor and Publisher of the informative — and beautiful — travel newsletter, Dream of Italy, is my guest this week. Over the last eight years she has published nearly 80 issues, each one chock-a-block full of stories about Italian culture and essential “insider” travel tips for the Italophile and first-time traveler alike. She’s an experienced travel planner and…
Bella Bevagna
Where the heck is Bevagna? — Tim Jenkins, responding to my text that we had arrived Millstone in the light, Bevagna Four of us were being driven from Rome’s Fiumico airport towards what would be our home away from home for a week in Cannara, just outside of Assisi, in Umbria. We were tired, and it was only 9:30 in…
Gone Umbrian
The traveler who has gone to Italy to study the tactile values of Giotto or the corruption of the Papacy, may return remembering nothing but the blue sky and the men and women under it. — E.M. Forster As you read this, I am somewhere in Umbria — “the green heart of Italy” — with about a dozen other folks.…
Seeing Red
One of the essential skills for a traveler is the ability to make a rather extravagant fool of oneself. — John Flinn What’s the first thing you do when you wake up in Italy on the first day of your vacation? The choices are clear: from where we are, we can go to any of the great Shakespearean cities —…
Haunted Happenings
Salem, Massachusetts: Tough on crime for 300 years. — Our friend, Rev. Steve Silver Ellen's handiwork It happens early every October in Salem. First, Ellen Talkowsky and her able crew tie dozens of dried corn stalks to all the light posts downtown. Orange ribbons, of course. Then the banners go up along Essex Street and the pedestrian mall. Then there’s…
R & R @ #JRWC
Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped. — Lillian Hellman Sometimes, after all the creating and rewriting and hair-pulling, we writers need a little R&R. By which I mean we need to get away for a few days to be surrounded by other writers, learning about the craft, exchanging…
Lusting for Books, Lusting for Travel
If you have the choice of going to Alaska or reading about Alaska, read about it. — Annie Dillard No offense to Alaska, but that was the reminder we got at last week’s James River Writers Writing Show event on research. All of which is to say that whether we’re writing about travel or reading about travel, we’ve got to…
#SIBA10, Daytona Beach FL
All Southerners are required to have a layover in Atlanta on their way to either Heaven or Hell. — Conventional wisdom at SIBA We just got back from SIBA — the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance trade show, held in Daytona Beach, FL this year. It was a great show. Great Little Books, LLC had a nice presence there…
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