As fall settles over Southcentral Alaska in a brief burst of gold, birches gleam against the dark spruce that cover the lower slopes of the Kenai Mountains. It’s a fleeting season, and I was fortunate to be rafting 17 miles of the Kenai River when the colors were at their peak. Flaming trees lined the […]
A few years ago, when I told people I was taking my kids to Scotland for spring break, I got one of two responses: “You’re going to freeze your butts off!” (we didn’t, for the record), or “Oh, I’ve always wanted to go to Scotland!” For such a small nation, Scotland has a lot of […]
“Now that’s my kind of dessert!” I made my declaration softly, letting the conversations around me swell and fade, as I took in my honey-drizzled, almond-speckled slices of the sun. Okay, they were orange slices. But have you tasted oranges in Morocco? They create, to borrow writer Jeff Greenwald’s phrase, a kind of citrus ecstasy. […]