While planning a work trip to Mexico City, a location I already loved, I hatched a plan to bring back the ultimate reward: a patio-full of the legendary Talavera clay pottery the city of Puebla is revered for. I pictured myself buying and shipping huge multicolored hand-thrown pots, pewter accents, maybe a huge ceramic yellow sun to turn my rather drab patio into the tropical paradise I’d always known it could be.
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Read MoreAt the intersection of the 2020 Black Lives Matters protests in Washington, DC and the COVID-19 pandemic, Priyanka Surio has reassessed what it means to be a mindful and responsible citizen of the world.
Read MoreOnly nine months after being laid off from our jobs in New York, my husband and I were about to open the doors to our brand-new bar and art gallery in Altea, Spain. We’d invested our life savings and the renovations had just been completed.
Read MoreConceived by Anthony Bourdain and completed by his longtime co-author and assistant, Laurie Woolever, World Travel takes us around the globe one last time with Bourdain’s signature wisdom, humor, and open-hearted curiosity.
Read MoreGet ready to fill up your Kindle or your carry-on. Our editors and contributors recommend eight irresistible page-turners…with an Undomesticated twist: Expect strong women, international settings, and ideas to chew on.
Read MoreThis profound memoir traces Nyamayaro’s path from near-starvation to world-recognized humanitarian leader. Far more than just an inspirational story, I Am a Girl from Africa presents a practical and poetic roadmap for changing the world.
Read MoreRecent college graduate Amy Dong’s collection of connected essays explores what it means to grow up, at home and abroad, and what happens when life doesn’t go according to plan.
Read MoreIn the mid-1980s at Oxford, Isabella’s cricket-star boyfriend Ash moves home to India for an arranged marriage, but he leaves behind a note, asking her to meet him at Oxford on a date 25 years in the future.
Read MoreSusan Pohlman is a writer and host of the Phoenix Writers Network who knows firsthand the power of travel to inspire and heal. Her latest memoir, A Time to Seek, takes her to Florence as she’s struggling to find a second act in midlife.
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Read MoreI stumbled into The Queen Vic in Aberdeen, Scotland after 16 hours of travel. My taxi driver from the airport had said, looking at my AirBnB address, “I think you live close to the local here in Rosemount. It’s one of the best locals in Aberdeen, so you are a lucky lass.”
Read MoreNatalia Sylvester is the author of three critically acclaimed novels. Her debut, Chasing the Sun was followed by Everyone You Know Goes Home. Her latest, Running, is a young adult novel that came out last year just in time for the election. Sylvester immigrated to the United States from Peru at the age of four and is based in Texas now.
Read MoreIn Damascus, Rana and her friends live in bright apartments full of hope, as they watch the Egypt Spring unfold on TV and wonder if their Syria would be next. But it’s in the drab apartment blocks in England that Rana looks back at her promising college career and the many kilometers she walked and rode overland hidden in a frigid fruit truck to what she thought would be safety in the UK.
Read MoreIn crossing oceans for our 40-day honeymoon trip through Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam, my wife and I had put ourselves back in the closet for a constellation of reasons. Public displays of affection were frowned upon in these countries, so we were careful not to kiss or cuddle in restaurants the way we would’ve back home in Boston.
Read MoreI can’t feel my right foot and my legs aren’t even in the lotus position. Cici, my husband’s former grad student, and Shifu, as we call the Buddhist master, have folded their lower bodies into tight packets — knees down, soles and palms turned heavenward. Shifu’s posture mirrors the row of buddhas and bodhisattvas, radiating stillness on the shelf behind her close-cropped head.
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