Word: journeyer
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...book painstakingly progresses month by month, taking readers on a journey of journaling under trees, diet battles won and lost, manic depression diagnoses, multiple suicide attempts, Prozac and a pregnancy during which the author eats “onion rings the size of bracelets.” Is she an ectomorph who eats to live, a mesomorph who eats and lives, or an endomorph who lives to eat? Oh the traumas of the mind in biology class. Sounds more like Judy Blume writing her own version of Prozac Nation than Sylvia Plath’s prose...
...guidebooks. A real traveler doesn’t use airplanes, and if he does, he damn well doesn’t buy a return ticket. Even if we reject out of hand the clichés that tell us, “Life’s a journey, not a destination,” doesn’t it still make sense that travel, of all things, should be about the journey...
...Sleeper. In any case, when they finally are invented, teleporters will be the final surrender of travel to the armies of abstraction. And then the hoards of lei-draped tourists boarding their Abstraction Airlines flight to Costa Rica will shout, “So much for the journey. All hail the destination...
When 8-month-old Aliya Jane met her new, adoptive family last August in the orphanage at Krasnoyarsk, Russia, there were two loving faces to learn. There to greet her was mom Beth Stubenbord, 40, a single woman from New York City, and grandma Jane, 64. Recalling the emotional journey, Beth says she couldn't imagine making it alone: "I knew I wanted my mother to go with me. I wanted somebody else to rely on and talk to." Having her experienced hands along also proved invaluable as Jane cared for Aliya during the day so Beth could grab...
When a grandparent makes the adoption journey and contributes positively to the earliest days of child rearing, it sends a strong signal to his or her grown child that the youngster is a full-fledged member of the family. For many, it is a seminal moment that allays the concerns about acceptance that may be prevalent in the mind of the adopting parent...