My style of painting is so personal, and has existed in one incarnation or another since I was a little girl drawing in my notebooks. As I grow and change, so does the look and feeling of my paintings. The more I devote myself to my practice, the clearer the message comes across.
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[dropcap size=small]D[/dropcap]uring her two years of teaching English in Madrid, Devon Hughes — along with her students — struggled with language acquisition (in her case, Castillano). A former English major, tour guide, and aspiring writer, communication had been her “daily bread”, which later made asking and paying for her daily bread at a Spanish corner …
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[dropcap size=small]”I[/dropcap]n China, you don’t have control over the temperature on your thermostat; the government does. That explains why we kept adjusting our temperature dial and nothing ever happened,” Connie Beach tells me. She traveled with her husband this spring to Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai. “The government sets mandated temperature settings,” she explains. “They send …
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At 92, Betty Reid Soskin is the oldest National Park Ranger serving today, as an interpretive ranger leading tours at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, California.
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Pack Burro Racing is the only sport that is indigenous to Colorado. What started as a tribute to the state’s mining history has become an annual spectacle in which, every summer, super fit athletes and their hopefully well-trained and willing equine counterparts run long distances over Rocky Mountain passes. It’s as crazy as it sounds.
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by Caroline Parke wiggling inch born high up a dizzy haze of pirouetting pollen strands gave you form to match in your listless, swirling descent; a ribbon dancer, you silked you down slow from that breeze-haunted nursery, carried through clouds of tree sex, fluorescent with lust, one sticky band linking the branch of your birth …
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…I sit down on the floor by the desk to chat with Lora about her journey to yoga, Yoga Rocks the Park, what it means to show up as a woman on the mat and in life, and her new adventures in chicken farming.
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[dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]here’s something about traveling by boat that inherently equals adventure. I don’t know if it’s the wind in my hair, the bright sunshine on my face, the splash of water occasionally making its way over the bow, or the passing scenery as the ship cuts its way through the water. It’s all of those …
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While they’re making a splash abroad, the cyclists are still looking for acceptance at home. Riding in their own country, they dodge traffic, honks, open-mouth stares, stones, slingshots.
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Just under 5 feet tall, Gaytri pushes the boundaries of what’s expected. “I had a very strong desire to drive a scooter,” Gaytri says, “Whenever I was looking at boys, they were driving scooters, and I wanted to do it…
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The Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation has teamed up with the Sherpa’s Fund, a group of ten professional photographers, to raise money for those affected. They are selling their photos of the Everest region and allocating 100% of the profits to this community.
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[dropcap size=small]B[/dropcap]efore she was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by airplane, Jerrie Mock was a housewife. She had graduated the only female aeronautical engineering major in her class at Ohio State, but, ‘in 1945, for a woman, a career in aviation wasn’t realistic.’ Uh-huh. Sure. In 1964, the amateur pilot left behind her …
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