©2012 by Richard Jordan I met Quincy in July of 1984 at a campground just west of the McKenzie Pass on Highway 242 which runs between the Willamette Valley and…

©2012 by Lorrie Goldin Emma, my 22-year-old daughter, has long dreamed of Russia. At last she is there, studying for a semester in St. Petersburg. It’s not Siberia, but the…

©2012 Christine Oneto During the Christmas holidays and throughout mid-January, I had an issue that no writer would like to have: I could not type! Although I can often type…

© 2012 by Lorrie Goldin I’ve long wanted to visit Crater Lake, but my husband refuses. “It’s hot and dry and endless,” he objects, recalling a boyhood vacation with his…

©2012 by Kalpana Mohan It’s one thing to grow up in India’s middle class and travel as a local. But traveling as a well-to-do non-resident Indian who is taking in…

@ 2012 Tami Casias You know you have to get out when you find yourself ironing rather than writing. So when I needed to travel to my daughter’s home in…

©2011 by Dr. Joan Steidinger The concept was simple: attend a sports conference in Hawaii, then – and most importantly – travel to Nepal to run a three-day stage race…

© 2010 by Dick Jordan For the past three nights I’ve heard the explosions from miles away.  I’m not in Afghanistan or Iraq; I live near San Francisco.  It’s just…

© 2011 by Todd Crawshaw Navigating through life as a writer you will, at times, feel crushed like roadkill on the superhighway.  It’s unavoidable.  My advice, when this happens, is…

©2011 by Anita Jones Anyone who says writing is a lonely business has never spent time with a roomful of hardheaded fictional folk bent on having their way. Unlike boring,…