The World In Between

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• The Strand Races: Courtmacsherry, Ireland

  By Julie Callahan on November 15, 2020 • ( 6 )

  

  At first blush, the strand race is one of a bevy of small town horse races that dot the pastures of West Cork each summer. Yet this race requires no lush fields. The strand race, you see, is run in… Read More ›

• The Road Trip

  By Julie Callahan on August 29, 2020 • ( 14 )

  

  I think of camping as the epitome of the simple life. Me. Under the stars. A distant cowboy singing, “Git along little dogies.” It’s tar-black coffee poured from an enameled pot. A fiercely independent act which makes no concessions for… Read More ›

• Cell phones and Sandy Lou

  By Julie Callahan on August 18, 2020 • ( 18 )

  

  It’s 6 AM and I’ve been awake for two hours, huddled under the covers to mute the light from my phone as I flick through the news, Instagram and email. I play a round or two of sudoku to exercise… Read More ›

• Explorations

  By Julie Callahan on August 11, 2020 • ( 14 )

  

  In 1809, Meriwether Lewis shot himself in a boarding house 70 miles shy of Nashville, Tennessee. He was heading home to what is now my home, Charlottesville, Virginia. Three years earlier, he and his partner, William Clark, had returned from… Read More ›

• A Tale of Two Cities

  By Julie Callahan on October 16, 2019 • ( 2 )

  

  Last month, we spent 10 days in London and Paris. The trip started as a meetup in London with our daughter, Taylor, planned months ago when we thought we’d still be living in Paris and could easily pop over. Things… Read More ›

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