From the monthly archives:
I love the Merchant-Ivory film A Room with a View, which begins in the Pension Bertolini in Florence, Italy, where the characters played by Helena Bonham Carter and Maggie Smith have gone to escape dreary old England. They find upon arriving that, alas, their hotel room has no view. You have to have a room [...]
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If the title of this post snagged your attention, good! It was meant to. Actually, I fudged a bit on the truth here…for effect. It really wasn’t Oprah who saved my life, but Oprah’s magazine, and it was my writing life, not my life life. To be specific, it’s the July issue that worked the magic on me, [...]
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I just returned from a week in Illinois, where I attended a conference in Springfield and had the good fortune to visit the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library. It was fabulous. I have been to a number of presidential libraries, but none so beautiful, interesting, and inspiring. You should all put it on your “Places I [...]
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