pen4hire on August 31st, 2011

Just have to share this Uncle Sam from the small town of Hatch, New Mexico. The town is best known as the green chile capital of the world. And what’s that in Uncle Sam’s hand?? This photo is posted as part of Travel Photo Thursday, started by Budget Travel Sandbox where you can see a gorgeous [...]

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pen4hire on August 31st, 2011

Destination: Montreal area, Canada Book: A Trick of the Light: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel  by Louise Penny (NEW 8/30/2011) from St. Martin’s Press and Macmillan Audio Thank you, Macmillan Audio, for sending me on CD just in time for my road trip to Santa Fe.  A mystery is just the thing for our road [...]

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pen4hire on August 29th, 2011

NOTE: If you are reading this in e-mail, on Facebook, or otherwise not on the Blog Site, you may want to click through so that you can see the actually layout and better understand what I am explaining. I’ve been sprucing up some of the things you may not notice at A Traveler’s Library.(If you [...]

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pen4hire on August 26th, 2011

Destination: Santa Fe Indian Market Held the third weekend in August every year, the Santa Fe Indian Market celebrated its 90th birthday in 2011. Over at the Tahoma Blog, I wrote about Geronima Cruz Montoya, an artist who was six years old when the Market started, grew up to be an artist and teacher, and [...]

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pen4hire on August 24th, 2011

Has it been five years since we were in Italy? Unbelievable! But Italy stays with you once you have traveled there. Here’s another of my round-up posts (read: she’s traveling and not blogging every day). Pin it

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pen4hire on August 22nd, 2011

Destination: New York City, Italy Book: Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton A GUEST POST by Casey Barber Note: Today a knowledgeable food writer tells us about a new memoir by a chef who is also a writer who travels through kitchens of New York, France, Greece, [...]

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pen4hire on August 19th, 2011

Book: Back of Beyond, by C. J. Box (NEW August 2, 2011) Note: I listened to the book on MacMillan Audio, read by Holter Graham. Simultaneously released in hardback by St. Martin’s Press. Have you ever had a hankering to saddle up and ride into the back country of Yellowstone National Park? You might change your [...]

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pen4hire on August 17th, 2011

Note: Please mosey on over to Mara Purl site and see her big rave about A Traveler’s Library. Thanks Mara!! Destination: Central coast, California Book: by Mara Purl I am reading What the Heart Knows in a pdf copy that was supplied to reviewers by the publisher. It is a combination mystery/romance/contemporary novel set in California, [...]

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pen4hire on August 15th, 2011

Destination: Nova Scotia Book: My Famous Evening (2004) by Howard Norman Howard Norman, American writer,  focuses on Nova Scotia  in this eclectic book. Like one of those patchwork quilts made of individual squares that tell facets of a story, reflects Norton’s view of the essentials of Nova Scotia in an introduction and five essays/stories that [...]

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