Mark Walker/Creative Nonfiction

  My Life in the Land of the Eternal Spring: The Coffee Plantation   By Mark D. Walker Contributor Though I had lived and worked in Guatemala for seven years, it was a brief encounter with my young daughter, Michelle, on the San Francisco Miramar coffee...
Dan Morey/Travel

Dan Morey/Travel

Dan Morey Photo A ruin along the Appian Way.   Lost in the Catacombs of Rome by Dan Morey Begun in 312 BC, the Appian Way once stretched from Rome all the way to Brindisi on the Apulian coast. Over the centuries, it acquired a rather grim history, serving as a...

Notes from Wheeler Hill/Michael Czarnecki

  Introduction to “Notes from Wheeler Hill”   As I sit writing this I’m nearly 3,000 miles away from Wheeler Hill, NY. When I look up I see Pacific waves crashing against numerous rocks and sea stacks beyond the 250-foot cliff that lies just a few dozen...
Jennifer Love/Travel

Jennifer Love/Travel

Jennifer V. Love photos Guanajuato, Mexico *** The Messenger of San Juan de Chamula   by Jennifer V. Love II haven’t been in a church since my grandfather’s funeral over a year ago, but now that I’m traveling in Mexico, I’m checking out churches like a regular...
Lauren Johnson/Travel

Lauren Johnson/Travel

The Roman Forum *** Sinkholes in the Cobblestone: What Lucia Berlin Taught Me about Rome   by Lauren Johnson I had been in Rome for about a week when the sanitation workers went on strike. I noticed something was off as I walked through Trastevere: an ancient,...