It is not hard to climb to the highest point in Illinois, unless we are accounting for tedium. Charles Mound (elevation 1,235 feet) is on private property, and open to the public only a handful of weekends a year—including, to my good fortune, the Saturday […]
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Hemispheres Magazine Iceland Cover Story
Not long ago, Iceland was a spectacularly beautiful but seldom visited wonderland of waterfalls, volcanoes, and geysers in the lonely North Atlantic, still finding its national feet after centuries of Danish and Norwegian rule. Then, an unlikely confluence of events: The economic crisis of […]
Baden Baden for United Hemispheres
Baden Baden for United’s Hemispheres: Ten weeks to the day before I arrive in Baden-Baden, I learn my father has a terminal, terrible disease. Two days after that, I am asked to move out of my apartment in Paris posthaste (“Four weeks, six, we can be […]