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March 6, 2014
Travel Writers' Guide: 50+ Best Science Museums Around the World
One of the questions I hear most often (besides how to teach your kids to love art) is how to combine science and travel. I have two words: Science Museums! We love them, we visit them whenever we can, and we have such fun.
March 5, 2014
10 Amazing Chocolate Museums Around the World
I live to eat. I travel for food. But there’s a higher calling out there, and you’re about to discover it (and, subsequently, make some travel plans of your own). Yes. It’s true. There’s a whole WORLD of Chocolate Museums (swoon).
March 4, 2014
Teaching English in China: 5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Coming
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I’ll never forget stepping off the airplane for the first time at the Beijing airport and thinking to myself “What the *#@&$ did I just get myself into?” I didn’t know a lick of Mandarin other than ni hao, and prior to leaving I probably couldn’t have found Xinjiang, the province that was to become my new home, on a ma
March 3, 2014
Find Lost River and Explore New Hampshire’s Heritage
A trip to Kinsman Notch, the Western-most notch of the White Mountains, is a place of many surprises. What exactly is a notch? A notch is a mountain pass- a gap between mountain peaks- that is u-shaped, from a lobe of the continental glacier, plowing to the southeast, scouring the rock in its path.
March 2, 2014
Culture for the Week of March 3 By Josh Garrick
Culture for the Week of March 3 By Josh Garrick
Now through mid-March – Flowers Everywhere at Bok Tower
March 1, 2014
Adventures in Belfast: Child’s Play
If you get a chance, next time you’re in Belfast, visit the historic and colorful Falls Road.
Artist of the Month: Kim Rodeffer Funk
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Lost in happiness, beauty, color, joy. That is how I feel when I dive into the art of Kim Rodeffer Funk, our Artist of the Month. One look at these swaths of color, these fireflies of light, these feelings of deep artistic beauty, and you, too, will fall in love.
February 28, 2014
9 Places to Celebrate Love, All Around the World
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While you can celebrate love anywhere in the world (especially if you are with your loved one!), there are some places that just exude LOVE. It might be a romantic setting, a historical setting that exemplifies love, or a location that changed the way we think about romantic love.
February 27, 2014
Spring Events to Celebrate our National Wildlife Refuge System's 111th Birthday
Our National Wildlife Refuges, managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, are located all across the United States, and are a national treasure. In fact, such a beloved treasure that they are going to be 111 years old this year!
