Category: Antonia projects
Two days ago, while volunteering for the local library, I was chatting to a woman about what her grown-up children are doing now. Her oldest, it seems, had gotten …
With the gift-giving holiday frenzy bearing upon us in no time flat, many people are stuck between awareness of the worldwide recession and its effects, and the trend over …
Tomorrow’s American Thanksgiving holiday will see millions of turkeys roasted, billions of pounds of cranberries boiled with sugar, and a cornucopia of root vegetables baked, broiled, stewed, creamed, and …
Being a good locavorian recently, I’ve been haunting several local farms. With the impending US economicpocalypse (say that 10 times fast), my neighbors and I have eagerly started constructing …
I woke up today, groggy and grouchy after weeks of illness and deadening mommy-brain activities, to realize it had been two weeks since I posted. I apologize for the …
If you’ve had the news on for as long as five minutes recently (and managed to skip the endless US presidential election coverage), you noticed that the Big Bear …
A couple years ago World Hum had a clever little article on how to use a squat toilet. I was glad to finally see some practical advice on the …
Following on Liz’s post about great bookstores worldwide, and on the seemingly collective obsession we PT bloggers have with books (especially, of course, those related to travel), I’m happy …
I wanted to make this PT’s Jan Morris week, not that it necessarily coincides with anything particular about her, like her birthday. The past couple weeks have zipped by …
A recent piece about Moscow’s ritzy Ritz Carlton hotel in Intelligent Travel went a long way to showing that not all of Russia is vacuously obsessed with consuming as …
March might seem early to be thinking about a festival in early October, but it’s actually getting on the late side for the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. …
For forty years my in-laws have lived in a shut-in, overbuilt suburb of Nottingham, England, and will jump at any chance to get out in the open countryside. So …