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Debra Bokur

Create a Meaningful Writing Space

We writers need our wild dreams and flights of fancy, our plunges into made-up worlds filled with people and places we’ve imagined into...

Debra Bokur

Where the winter always waits

I’ve always been drawn to cold places, to bleak shorelines and the calls of gulls filtered by the fall of snow. Alone needn’t mean...

Debra Bokur

Reading My Way through the Pandemic

I'll be honest: being on lockdown during a pandemic isn't all that different from daily life for me. For years, I've spent the majority...

Debra Bokur

Lisbon, Portugal: City of Discovery

Lisbon reveals itself in a tangle of lovely layers. Cool creams, warm golden yellows and russety, tile-reds mingle in complex patterns,...

Debra Bokur

In Berlin, pedestrians follow the rules

I’ve been traveling back and forth to Germany regularly for decades, mostly for work. When I was the travel editor at Healing Lifestyles...

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Water and Wellbeing in Italy

Called Arime by the poet Virgil, the spa island of Ischia may be less known than its neighbor, Capri, but is every bit as seductive....

Debra Bokur

Metro confusion in Paris

I’ve always been comfortable using the metro, tram, bus and subway systems in whatever city I’ve found myself in. My mother didn’t learn...