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Here Is The (Clock)House: Where for writers, words and soul come together
Looking for uninterrupted writing time in a nature-surrounded enclave that truly understands what writers need? Try The Clockhouse by Arvon!
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Vampire Capitalism: Visiting Transylvania before Halloween
Who would have known that the late Irish author Bram Stoker - who had never even been to Eastern Europe - would wind up being one of...
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A Portal To Other Worlds: Inside The Last Bookstore In Los Angeles
This independent bookstore in Downtown LA may have only opened in 2005, but inside its unique book vaults and tunnels, and curious nooks...
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Memoirs of a Ryokō-sha
The scene at the end of Memoirs of a Geisha (the film, not the book) where we see a flashback of the main character Sayuri - when she was...
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Georgia On My Mind: Batumi, Eurasia's Pearl of the Black Sea
Sometime during the past few years, Batumi - a beautiful coastal town in Georgia, where the beaches are lined with pebbles and the air is...
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Finding Life In The House Of Bones
I used to paint - a lot. When I was a fresh university graduate in Boston, many nights after I got home from work, whether I was sad,...
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The Village That Slowed Down Time
It was a cold and nippy winter's day in Azerbaijan - a destination I'd wound up in through a rather spontaneous plane ticket purchase....
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