Eat Pray Love

The story of a writer who wakes up one day to discover that she is not as happy with her life as she would have hoped.  Much like the woman Julia Roberts plays in Larry Crowne, our hero finds that her layabout husband with his half-assed plans and never fulfilled dreams is not going to be a part of her future.  She throws her hands in the air and leaves him. She instantly hooks up with a whiny actor and moves in with him, seeing as she gave all her worldly possessions to her soon to be ex-husband.  While living…

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Travel Writing-One More Road Not Taken

“I’m a writer. If I stop writing, I’m nothing.“Wilbur Smith There are a few writing gigs that make the average, would-be writer smile and stare off into space. To be a travel writer is to be free of the bounds of the everyday and live the life of an explorer. Or so we think as we ponder becoming a travel writer. The facts are that I am not becoming a travel writer, not really. Not in the sense that I am a freelance writing getting paid to recount my mild adventures as I travel about the country. I still think…

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