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Croatian Vacation Photos [by John Lane]
I am a writer but on my desk-top computer I have about 20,000 photos. You do the math on what they say about every picture being worth a thousand words, or as Rod Stewart…
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South Dalmatia Island Sailing– from the Journal by John Lane
First Day By mid-morning we had left the harbor and motored into the narrows between the highway and low, hog-back hills pinching in from the starboard side. The shore was lined with black floating…
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Next Line Please: Twelve Down, Two to Go in the American Scholar’s Crowd-Sourced Sonnet
Line twelve is in the bag in The American Scholar's crowd-sourced sonnet, thanks to readers' clever contributions. David Lehman recognizes runners-up and now includes a winner's circle in his weekly posts. Suggest line thirteen…
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The Monastery and Trekking in Krupa Canyon by John Lane
When we headed from the coast into the Croatian hinterlands we had only a sandwich the hotel in Trogir had made us for lunch. We expected the trip to take about two hours to…
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Travel/Writing by John Lane
For writers travel happens often in both a real and literary space. I always try to track down poetry from wherever I'm going, and sometimes I read novels, essays, blogs. Of course there is…
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Just Like This Train [by John Lane]
We are rolling through the Slovinian alps and I'm listening to Joni Mitchell's Court and Spark on my iPod– "I'm always running behind the times, just like this train…" and the 1970s lyrics…
