The Writer and the Wanderer

Novelist and travel writer, Mary Morris, reflects on landscapes and literature and the role that each has played in her life. For more on Mary Morris go to her website marymorris.net

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Haste and Waste

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Yesterday I was standing in line at JFK en route to the Canary Islands. I was excited by the trip and had lett myself plenty of time but...

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

Heading Home on the Northern

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Last weekend Larry and I were leaving a friend's on Long Island, heading back to Brooklyn. We were running a bit late and Larry needed...

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Monday, September 2, 2013

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Swimmer

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A few minutes ago Diana Nyad completed a 110 miles, fifty hour swim from Cuba to Key West. Without a shark cage. It was her fifth atte...

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Children at the Beach - Milwaukee, 2010

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We were driving out to Long Island this weekend and listening to Seamus Heaney's poem, "Railway Children," in an NPR podcas...

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Thursday, August 22, 2013

A Balloon Takes A Walk

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As Proust said, travel isn't about seeing new places but about looking with new eyes. The other day we came upon this curious litt...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

What I love about where I live.

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Doesn't that old tune, "There's No Place like Home," have the refrain "no matter where I travel, no matter how fa...

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

"It was here in Big Sur...

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that I first learned to say 'Amen.' " -----Henry Miller

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