pen4hire on November 17th, 2011

In looking back through my pictures, I find that I am fascinated by the people who make things. I often snap the hands of craftsmen and women–no matter what their craft may be. Here are three up close and personal from Bayeux France, Chattanooga Tennessee, and Mansfield Ohio.   This post is part of Travel [...]

Continue reading about Travel Photo Thursday: Working Hands




pen4hire on November 16th, 2011

Ten Perfect Gifts for Travelers Who Read. Buy them or put them on your wish list. And don’t miss the DISCOUNTS just for YOU! Look for the $$.

Continue reading about 10 Perfect Gifts for Travelers Who Read (2012 Edition)

pen4hire on November 14th, 2011

Don’t miss my guest post about Louis Bromfield and Malabar Farm as pioneering sustainable agriculture at the blog called Attainable-Sustainable. Kris Bordessa writes a lively blog with suggestions for all those little things we can do to give a helping hand to our environment.  Louis Bromfield would have loved her–and vice versa. I am grateful [...]

Continue reading about Another Look at Louis Bromfield

pen4hire on November 14th, 2011

Destination: Ohio Book: Pleasant Valley (1945) by Louis Bromfield Louis Bromfield definitely got me thinking.  About the complex man who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and made waves along with contemporaries Sinclair Lewis and Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and why Bromfield has sunk out of view. About why he left his global meanderings to return [...]

Continue reading about Louis Bromfield and Loving the Land in Ohio

pen4hire on November 11th, 2011

Jennifer Close–mom, educator, writer, traveler– who writes Two Kids and a Map, has agreed to write about family travel at least once a month for A Traveler’s Library.  Jennifer is the only one of the new contributors I did not know when we started our adventure, but she was recommended by a family travel writer [...]

Continue reading about Meet Jennifer Close: Family Travel Friday

pen4hire on November 10th, 2011

Pet Travel Thursday Destination: The American Road Trip Book: Travels With Charley, In Search of America by John Steinbeck By Edie Jarolim Woe to the author who becomes a classic, especially one who has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. The uninitiated reader — or the one who only knows the books assigned in [...]

Continue reading about Steinbeck Classic Launches Pet Travel Book Club

pen4hire on November 9th, 2011

Wednesday Matinee Destination: Corsica Movie: Queen to Play by Jane Boursaw I knew right away I’d like Queen to Play, a French film set on the gorgeous island of Corsica. You geography buffs will know immediately where that is, but I had to look it up. Corsica is a mountainous piece of land in the [...]

Continue reading about Queen to Play: A Tale of Chess in Corsica

pen4hire on November 8th, 2011

Today we get to know a bit more about our Culture Travel Tuesday contributor, Dr. Jessie Voigts. Regular readers of A Traveler’s Library are familiar with Jessie, since she has been an almost monthly contributor for many moons.  She has been bringing us synopses of interviews with authors from her wonderfully useful website Wandering Educators. [...]

Continue reading about Meet Jessie Voigts: Culture Travel Tuesday

pen4hire on November 7th, 2011

We’re kicking off this month’s Contributor’s week by interviewing my friend Kerry Dexter.  She’s your friend, too, if you read A Traveler’s Library Great American Road Trip last year, because she provided the musical accompaniment for each and every place we visited.  I enjoyed that partnership with Kerry so much and also am always delighted [...]

Continue reading about Meet Kerry Dexter: Music Travel Mondays

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205