Outside the comfort zone : University of Dayton, Ohio

Sunday September 25, 2016

Outside the comfort zone

Travel writer Karin Esterhammer has published a captivatingly funny travel memoir about a Los Angeles family who moves to Vietnam to ride out the Great Recession, So Happiness to Meet You: Foolishly, Blissfully Stranded in Vietnam. Her work has been published in the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun and other outlets. Her diary-style article in the Los Angeles Times about the move to Vietnam earned more letters to the editor than almost any other travel story.

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Inspired by Erma

(Editor's Note: When we asked for personal stories about how the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop inspired writers to write - anything from books to blogs - the response was overwhelming. If you missed the opportunity and would like to share your story, send a short note to erma@udayton.edu for a follow-up story. ) One writer dubs the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop the "Woodstock of Humor." Another calls it a "utopia" for writers - one "that only appears every other year, out of t ...

Happy almost Halloween

Happy almost Halloween all you parents! Hey, I'm all for the little ones having a good time although I still think we need to design children's costumes out of their winter coats. Here in Colorado it always seems to snow hard on the festive night. This year Halloween falls on a Thursday, which means Friday is gonna be a difficult one for school teachers what with all the kids bouncing off the walls from massive sugar overload. I used to stay in and hand out the goodies, but ...

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