By Ayun Halliday
Twenty years of global travel have made me pretty choosy about souvenirs, but Milo, at six, is too green to resist the siren song of the colorful wares festooning the tourist trails. Not that his acquisition lust is confined to the kitsch cranked out for foreign visitors. It started in a Budapest subway […]

By Tracy Barnett
Family ties and a mysterious force call writer back to rural Veracruz
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Veracruz has been calling to me for a number of years, ever since that moonlit night a decade ago when I disembarked from a humanitarian aid caravan en route to Chiapas to soak my sweaty self in the […]

By Anna Brones
Theater and film are almost as essential to the romantic Parisian image as Notre Dame and the Eiffel Tower. Acting has always played a revered role in French culture, and from grandiose theater productions to cinema classics, the rest of the world has had the chance to taste the artistic delicacies that the […]

by Janet Riehl
A girlhood in rural Illinois wasn’t bad preparation for life in upcountry African nations. “Up country” meant the northern regions innermost from newly built capitol cities. My training as a future African driver began on my family’s farm at four years old⎯old enough to sit on my father’s lap⎯his left leg, to be […]

by Lone Mørch Schneider
“A Queen cannot come from such humble beginnings,” Frieda objected, standing in the remaining rubble of her Transylvanian childhood home. We were in Zendersch, an isolated parish tucked into the rolling hills of the mountainous heart of Romania. Her highness was my mother-in-law. She’d proclaimed herself the Queen of Petaluma, a town […]

by Jennifer Baljko
Lost in a dense forest with prickly bushes attacking my calves, I started thinking in expletives.
I was on a hair-brained outing with my father, the kind that usually began with his trademark self-satisfied grin, and, a few hours later, ended with me swearing I would never follow him again.
This time, we were searching […]