A travel writer’s confession: I write for a Boston newspaper, and I’d never been to Ireland

It’s writing a travel story about Ireland for a Boston newspaper. Boston has the largest Irish population of any major US ...

My Mother’s Dying Wish Took Me on a Trip I’ll Never Forget

On the ship I boarded at the bottom of Argentina with the three men I love most, I put my socks in a drawer, my sweaters on a shelf and my mother’s ashes in the cupboard above t ...