Servant Leader, Historian, Writer
By Krista Liberatore, guest contributor Over the past eight years, I’ve enjoyed discovering the benefits of working in downtown Cleveland. Of course, there are the obvious benefits of having tons of lunch options in walking distance and plenty of things to …
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Ever since my son and his wife moved to Washington, DC, about two years ago, we’ve made the six-hour trip to visit them every few months. Each time, we’ve considered taking a detour to visit the Flight 93 Memorial in …
Taking Time to Visit the Flight 93 Memorial Read more »
Depending on our destination, we find ourselves on one of three airlines: US Airways, Delta, or United (previously Continental). If we’re flying US Air, we connect in Philadelphia, a flight of more than 90 minutes from Erie, PA. The flight …
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Since we had actually gotten on the plane and flew to New York City, I figured this grand-prize thing wasn’t a hoax, but still, I wasn’t sure what to expect on Tuesday. Jim pointed out to me that this wasn’t …
Since we had to leave for this trip to meet Lady Gaga with very little notice, we concentrated on actually getting out of town rather than on what we would do when we got to New York City. So, we …
Lady Gaga Trip: Monday Evening Read more »
Observations from Monday, June 6, 2011 Soon after Jim and I boarded our plane to Philadelphia, at a little after 11:00 a.m., I tweeted that the plane had propellors. It was a Dash 8-100/200. Propellors scare me. They look like …
Lady Gaga Trip: Monday Daytime Read more »
This week, I entered a SiriusXM Gayle King Welcomes Lady Gaga contest and had a funny feeling that I would win. The concert is on Tuesday, June 7 in front of an intimate audience at the SiriusXM New York City …
Lady Gaga Concert Winner: Me! Read more »
Since I gave Best Western a nod in my wonderment of how nice an economy motel can be, I must do the same to Holiday Inn Express, the chain I used for the past two nights. In North Platte, NE, …
Holiday Inn Express Read more »
Here’s something I wrote about Lollipop when I was at the writers’ retreat in Wyoming: “My horse, Lollipop, is the ugliest of the bunch. He’s the equivalent of a pale, thin, red-headed man. When I first saw him, I was …
Tuesday was the all-day mountain ride. You might wonder when we ever wrote, but there was plenty of time for that with scheduled literature sessions, writing prompts, and sharing of our writing every day. But you don’t really want to …