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Summer vacation is typically associated with beaches, cruise ships, and road trips. For my mom, though, it’s a chance to go on a long-distance hike.She’s walked the Camino de Santiago — a network of pilgrimage routes across France, Portugal, and Spain, some of which are over 500 miles long —…
I have always struggled with stillness. When I was young, my right leg would bounce uncontrollably, rustling the sheets at night.I was in high school when I first heard a starting gun: It rang, I moved. I traded Long Island for California; after graduation, I raced back to New York…
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When the narrow cobblestone streets begin to empty, the usually omnipresent sailboats are tucked away in storage, and the Del’s Lemonade trucks are closed for the season, it’s clear that winter has arrived in Newport, Rhode Island.I’m a Rhode Island local who spends time in this coastal city year-round. Tourists…
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For 22 years, I was a military wife, putting aside my needs to support my husband’s career — all for the promise that after retirement, when our children were grown, we’d travel the world together.In 2018, retirement finally came, and not long after, our nearly 25-year marriage crumbled. When his…
My husband is Jewish, American, and from New England. I am a first-generation immigrant from Eastern Europe.I was baptized in Bulgaria and grew up in an Orthodox Christian household, whereas my husband was bar mitzvahed and went to Hebrew school. In other words, we come from completely different cultural and…
