Tag Archives: Travel

The View From Ten Thousand Feet

Posted on 23 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

After hours of intermittent dozing in a space so cramped you couldn’t put convicts in it without provoking human rights complaints, my point of view is a tad jaundiced. All I want is to be once again in a place where throwing garbage on the floor is socially unacceptable. Continue reading →

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Cats on a Hot Tin Roof

Posted on 05 June 2011 by Isabel Gibson

My Oxford says a cat is a “small, furry, domesticated, carnivorous quadruped.” What does it know? Continue reading →

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Not From Around Here

Posted on 13 March 2011 by Isabel Gibson

Where are y’all from? The time is March, 1990; the occasion is so-called spring break, there being nothing in the snowbanks of home that speaks yet of spring. Our questioner is a stereotypically blond and bronzed Pasadenan waitress: after all, … Continue reading →

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