January 30th, 2014 | Gardens and Gardening, General, Shopping, Society at Large, the world and Mother Nature, Travel
This cruise on the Sea Cloud–History and Gardens of the Caribbean–coordinated by Academic Arrangements Abroad, will be almost certainly a once in a lifetime thing. First of all, there’s the cost. We are never likely to have that kind of disposable...
January 22nd, 2014 | General, Memory, Pets, the world and Mother Nature, Travel
To experience this kind of luxury is to feel also the needling of guilt. Our cabin is made immaculate by our personal gremlin, the steward Erik, and someone hangs in a little linen bag several pages of articles from the New York Times (including the crossword puzzle)...
January 20th, 2014 | Cooking, Kitchen and Table, Genealogy, General, Memory, Time Passes, Travel
We passengers walk across decks and down hallways as though lost in the embrace of drink. The swells of the Caribbean as we traveled from Antigua to St. Barthélemy shift me from side to side, back to front, a spherical motion that I haven’t quite mastered yet. This is...