Category: travel
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The National Shrine of St. Thérèse overlooks the deep waters of Lynn Canal northwest of Juneau, Alaska. It’s more retreat center than tourist destination, although visitors do find their way to the quiet gardens and the chapel that sits on a tiny island you reach by crossing a stone causeway. We visited a couple of…
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There’s a lovely Truman Capote short story, something he wrote for a woman’s magazine in the ’50s, when he was minting his writerly self. A Christmas Memory reads as memoir and describes a little boy and his elderly distant cousin, unlikely friends in a not very friendly household. Each Christmas, they make each other paper…
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An electric vehicle changes everything about a road trip. I’m a deep believer in flying down the highway at 60 mph. The momentum, the smacking rhythm of the tires, the small-town gas stations, the pee breaks in the sagebrush by the highway in the dark. There’s music in it, somehow. Alone in the car, my…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 