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Mondays are for dreaming: Spring at Winterthur

I'll admit that this Monday morning I'm singularly uninspired. I just returned from a week in Vermont where I was helping out my father after surgery. Teddy and Matt both have the stomach flu. And I'm supposed to bring soup for the teacher's lunch at …

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Mondays are for dreaming: A return from the dark side

It's not often on this blog that I reveal the less attractive side of my personality to the world. Mostly that's because I'm in charge of the content, and hey, I like to look good as much as the next person. But I think it's also due to the fact that …

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Mondays are for dreaming: The gray whale migration

There are lots of things I love about writing a travel blog. I love how it brings a sense of possibility into the most dreary of days. When I'm feeling homebound or tied down all I have to do is poke around my own site for a few moments to remember …

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Mondays are for dreaming: Coram’s Fields

Recently on Twitter the travel writer Jen Leo, who is the lead blogger for the Los Angeles Times Daily Travel & Deal Blog, wrote that she was looking for things to do in London with her 14-month-old daughter Cora. Amie O'Shaughnessy of Ciao …

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Mondays are for dreaming: Swimming with the dolphins

  When I received my itinerary for the Jet Atlantis trip to the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and saw that we would start off by getting in the water with dolphins I realized that this was not something I had ever previously dreamed of …