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I write about travel with a focus on food, art, culture, luxury travel and quirky, off-beat locations.
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I'm a frequent contributor to the travel and food sections of The Boston Globe. My writing has also been featured in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ShowBoats International, American Way Magazine, The Robb Report, Yankee Magazine, Modern Farmer, The Globe and Mail, The Huffington Post, and the literary magazine, Tin House. I'm a co-contributor to the travel column, Here, There, and Everywhere, appearing weekly in The Boston Globe.

A freelance writer with an MFA from Mass College of Art, I often publish my own photographs and illustrations to accompany my stories, and have recently returned to my art-making studio.

My special interest—some might say obsession—is the world of oysters and shucking competitions.

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The Boston Globe Check-In: Volga Hotel Mexico City

Mexico City — We were sitting in Elora Restaurant, in a city of 21 million people, when I realized just how small the world can be.

To explain: My husband and I had checked into the Hotel Volga in Mexico City. The newly built, nine-story structure boasts a hulking brutalist exterior and sleek modern interior whose soaring atrium extends upward from the basement restaurant to the roof deck.

"We think of it as an urban cenote,” explained our bartender, as we peered down from the rooftop lounge to the tables below. Indeed, the basement-level restaurant’s textured concrete wall, sporting air plants and dripping with moss, evokes a cenote in the Yucatan, a below-ground sinkhole usually illuminated by a circle of sky above.

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