Sailing Aboard Riverboat Discovery: Experiencing Native Culture
I am looking out from the bow of the sternwheeler Riverboat Discovery III as we glide up the calm, khaki-green Chena River. It is mid-May, 70-degrees with a blue sky and puffy cumulus clouds; I peel off unnecessary layers while listening to our guide’s lively narration on the natural history and cultural history of interior […]
Christmas Crafts from the Village of Lauscha
The age-old art of handmade, glass-blown, and paper mache Christmas ornaments lives on in the village of Lauscha, in Germany’s ancient Thuringian Forest. One of my favorite Christmas memories as a child was unspooling the tissue paper-wrapped silvered Christmas ornaments compartmentalized in cardboard boxes. The entire sensory experience still stirs my soul, starting with the […]
Portland Oregon’s Edgy Culture
Quirky Portland. Creative Portland. Yummy Portland. All are very apt descriptions of this young-spirited, upstart of a city in Oregon.
Burning Man
It is Tuesday August 23rd, 2016 and I have been excitedly driving westward toward Nevada for two days. I parked for the night just off I-80 in “somewhere” Nebraska.
I Madonnari – Italian Street Painting Festival
“I Madonnari” is a Festival of Art that Brings People Together.
Innsbruck: “Where Every Day is a Holiday”
For more than 800 years, Innsbruck, has been the hub of the area known as Tirol, the most mountainous province of Austria.
A Tale of Two Davids
In the Davids of Donatello and Michelangelo lie the stories of the public and the private Florence. This was true in the 16th century, and it is still true more than 500 years later.
COLCOA: French Cinema Connection in Hollywood
How chic is this……..a French film festival right in the heart of Hollywood.
Guam Glories in Welcoming Visitors
[dropcap]G[/dropcap]uam offers an exciting, warm, vibrant island paradise experience, with great scuba diving and snorkeling, golf, beach-combing, wonderful shopping with better prices (especially with its duty free status and local markets) and spectacular sight-seeing and landmarks. It’s exotic in its own way, yet American. It’s “where America’s day begins!” as they say. Morning begins […]
The Other Easy: North Louisiana’s Art Community
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’d heard about the cultural delights of Northern Louisiana—engaging art, accessible artistic communities, great food and elemental American music–but we’d never taken time to visit. So when New Orleans’ restaurants and hotel rooms were jammed and priced beyond our means during the first few days of our scheduled vacation, we decided to fly into the […]