Travel
Winter in Provence: A Season of Stillness
Winter: A Different Kind of Beauty in Provence Years ago and long before Tom and I had a home in France, we found ourselves in the hilltop, walled village of Gordes in the Vaucluse area of Provence. It was a summer day with a blue sky of such depth that it looked to be crafted…
Read MoreTraveling the Familiar: Why Certain Places Feel Like Home
Can a Home Away be Familiar? In The Reader, a novel by Bernhard Schlink, the protagonist comments that he once believed he should be more adventurous in his travel, and so he explored countries and cities he might not have visited otherwise. Eventually, though, he recognized that he preferred to concentrate on the locales he…
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