Awards
The Taste of This Place
Traveler's Tales Best Travel Writing 2011 Gold Solas Award, category: Travel and Food
The Secret of It - What Parisian Women Whispered to Me
Traveler's Tales Best Travel Writing 2011 Bronze Solas Award, category: Travel and Transformation
Spirals - Memoir of a Celtic Soul
Press 53 Open Awards 2011 Finalist in Creative Nonfiction
http://www.press53.com/OpenAwards_2011.html
Winged Victory, A Pilgrimage to Paris
Whidbey Island Writer's Conference Benefactor's Award, First Place in Essay, 2009
Best Travel Writing 2011 Anthology
The Rarest of Editions
Traveler's Tales Best Travel Writing 2010 Gold Solas Award, category: Culture and Ideas
Traveler's Tales Editor's Choice April 2010
http://www.besttravelwriting.com/btw-blog/great-stories/culture-and-ideas-gold-winner-the-rarest-of-editions/
Placed in the Place
Book Passage Travel Writer's and Photographer's Conference
Grand Prize, 2009
This essay will be included in Wings From Victory, Erin's collection of Paris essays.
Articles/Essays
Coasting Beyond Boyhood
Wanderlust and Lipstick, May 2011
The story of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy as seen through the eyes of a mother and son.
http://wanderlustandlipstick.com/wander-tales/europe/coasting-beyond-boyhood/
Victory at the Louvre
World Hum, August 2010
Winged Victory from a different perspective.
http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-stories/winged-victory-at-the-louvre-20100802/
Peace Matters: 8 Reasons Why Obama Earned The Nobel Prize
Brave New Traveler, October 16, 2009
President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize in light of the wider world. This article highlights David Elliot Cohen's book, What Matters. Peace Matters
8 Nobel Prize Laureates On How Leadership Can End War.
Brave New Traveler, November 2, 2008
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates from around the world remind us that peace is not an antiquated notion, but a real possibility that requires certain qualities in our leaders in
Brave New Traveler, October 28, 2008
It was an unlikely place for thoughts of American patriotism: a twisting and turning, narrow road under a green canopy in the hills of Ireland:
The Writer's Workshop Review, July 25, 2008
A bunch of people from around the world mingle to produce A Rare Blend
A revised version of Rare Blend was a finalist in Wanderlust and Lipstick's Wander Women Write contest, and can be found here with additional photos.
Goodbye To Bush: Europeans React To President’s Farewell Tour
Brave New Traveler, July 1, 2008
Europe says goodbye to President Bush, opening a window of opportunity for travelers. Find out what this window hinges on in
A new view of Paris:ComParisons/Seine Through Fresh Eyes
Everywhere Magazine March/April 2008
Everywhere Magazine Online
Fall in love with Paris again and again.
The Fortress of His Mind: Charles d’Orleans’ Captivity in The Tower of London
The Literary Traveler, November 9, 2007
The Tower of London is illuminated in the book In a Dark Wood Wandering by Hella S. Haasse.
Peer inside an open window into Vincent van Gogh's soul.
Photo credits: ComParisons - David Lawrence, www.WideImages.com, www.vangoghgallery.com