“Kishinev morning” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by Clay Gilliland When the former Soviet Union broke apart, the small country of Moldova was one of many that emerged from its ruins. Many pundits expected it wouldn’t last, that it would be absorbed by its neighbor to the west, Romania, as part of a grand reconstruction of what had been theContinue reading “M is for Moldova”
Author Archives: Sandra Yeaman
L is for Lake Winnibigoshish
“Minnesota Lakes” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by evinella I thought I was too old for family vacations. I wanted to stay home, alone, while my parents took my five siblings. Dad wouldn’t say where we were going. He had never done that before–not told us. But Mom insisted I not stay home alone. I don’t think she thought IContinue reading “L is for Lake Winnibigoshish”
K is for Keren
“Keren Public Library” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by Book Aid International Lisa, a teacher from Texas at the Asmara International Community School, introduced me to Keren, Eritrea. Or perhaps it was Keren that introduced me to Lisa. It happened in the Keren Public Library. Once a month, Lisa and her daughter went to the Keren Public Library where the USContinue reading “K is for Keren”
J is for Japan
“Daisho in Temple, Miyajima, Japan” (CC BY 2.0) by Imahinasyon Photography A plain wooden trunk in the basement of the house of my childhood was off limits. Its contents included my parents’ mementos from the days before we children arrived. The kewpie doll my dad won for my mom at the fair, some dish towels mom had embroideredContinue reading “J is for Japan”
I is for Iran
“Music Room” (CC BY 2.0) by D-Stanley I loved it and I hated it on the same day every day for 882 days. It was Iran, and my love-hate relationship began on April 2, 1975, at the start of what I referred to as the world’s most elaborate April Fool’s gag. Two years before, I hadn’t thought suchContinue reading “I is for Iran”
H is for Hungary
“Szechenyi scene” (CC BY 2.0) by karaian Five days in Budapest, Hungary, in October 2000: that’s all the time I spent there. On the Thursday of that week, October 12, while I was attending a conference on travel issues in Budapest, the USS Cole was attacked in Aden Harbor on the southern coast of Yemen. What’s the connection?Continue reading “H is for Hungary”
Book Review: Deadly Little Secrets
In Loren Zahn’s second Theo Hunter mystery, Deadly Little Secrets, her protagonist, sometimes freelance journalist Theodosia Hunter, agrees to help out an old flame, now a Catholic chaplain, Tony Machado. Father John Fairbanks, a priest, teacher, and coach years ago at St. Augustine’s, a private Catholic high school when Tony attended, was found murdered, with theContinue reading “Book Review: Deadly Little Secrets”
G is for Germany
“Germany” (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by barnyz From 1985 to 1987, I spent my spare time in Germany in search of a bad German restaurant. I didn’t find one. The closest I came was a mediocre restaurant in an area that catered to tourists–Oberammergau. I decided that one didn’t count.
F is for Fargo
“fargo” (CC BY-NC 2.0) by almostsummersky I arrived in Fargo by way of St. Luke’s Hospital, my birthplace. While I never lived in Fargo–my family lived across the Red River of the North in Moorhead, Minnesota–there is no denying that Fargo had a big impact on my life. And initially, all I wanted was to get away fromContinue reading “F is for Fargo”
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