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February 2024

The Only Thing Resembling A Ship
with apologies to Bill Least-Heat Moon
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Mariya Strauss

January 2024

December 2023

Dispatch 5 from Portugal
Hello Lovely Readers, This is my fifth and final dispatch to you from my solo trip to Europe in November. Amazing and weird to think I’ve been home for…
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Mariya Strauss
Dispatch 4 from Europe -- Hello Portugal!
Reader, we are back on this journey together. I took it solo in November, and in case you missed the first few parts they are here, here and here. Let’s…
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Mariya Strauss
Dispatch 3 from Barcelona
in which we take a Spanish Civil War walking tour and make a rookie sunblock mistake on the Mediterranean
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Mariya Strauss

November 2023

Dispatch 2 from Barcelona
For those just tuning in, I arrived home last Friday from my big solo trip to Barcelona and Lisbon, my 50th birthday gift to myself. It was spectacular…
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Mariya Strauss
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Dispatch from Barcelona
it's not an homage, but it sort of is
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Mariya Strauss
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October 2023

My teaspoon of sand.
Pete Seeger, the great folk musician, gave an interview in 2004 on Democracy Now! in which he described the injustices of the world as a box of rocks on…
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Mariya Strauss
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What I've been reading & listening to
I haven’t done one of these in some time. Those of us in the US who observe Indigenous People’s Day may be home tomorrow, so I thought I would share a…
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Mariya Strauss
Finding the nachas in Duolingo
It's Yiddish for joy.
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Mariya Strauss
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