Word: joanna
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...distance runs or for relaxed sightseeing on longer trips, but if you need to get far away fast, take a plane. So goes the common wisdom. But there are times when the train wins on both counts, as I discovered one recent Friday when my 16-year-old daughter Joanna and I were scheduled to fly from New York City to Chicago and, that night, board the legendary City of New Orleans. Our goal was to sample some of the best of the American train experience from the Windy City to the Mississippi Delta. But snow closed the airport. Postponing...
After dinner, Joanna and I leaned back in spongy swivel chairs in the Skyview Lounge, watching the intermittently lighted expanses of Illinois flash by while other passengers took in the movie or hung out in the bar downstairs. When we returned to our sleeper, we found made beds beckoning...
...went exceptionally well; everything went very smoothly," said Co-director Joanna L. Chan...
Senator Eide got interested in graduated driver's licenses last year, when she noticed an outbreak of traffic citations and accidents among Joanna's friends who were new drivers. Even Joanna, an honor student and a responsible kid, was ticketed within two weeks of getting her license. Joanna and her crowd are guilty of nothing more than youth and inexperience--but that can be a dangerous combination behind the wheel. Eide, 45, worked at a clerical job in a hospital emergency room in the 1970s and witnessed a steady stream of car-crash victims. Citing dramatic reductions in teen auto...
Senator Eide hasn't gone that route yet, although Joanna did have a minor traffic accident earlier this month. (No one was hurt, but her father was driving right behind her.) So until she gets more driver's ed, Joanna is living under a new law: if she can't walk, she can catch a ride with her dad--or with her state senator...