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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By caslea | Views [106] | Scholarship Entry
How to describe the smell of cold? It's mist spilling from a freezer. Fresh, cool waterfalls. Frost in spring. Extreme cold is dry. Raw nostrils bleed, lungs sting. Skin pales, hair grows brittle, lips chap. For five months, my body has been my heat ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By 1illiput-travels_ | Views [70] | Scholarship Entry
I mean anyone can imagine finding a hidden travel gem in London, Paris, or Rome, right? Imagine eating a baguette and sipping Chardonnay at a secluded Paris café. Now, picture yourself riding a Vespa down a charming unchartered Roman backstreet. Have ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By kellyesq | Views [190] | Scholarship Entry
Tucked off a side road between Cairo and Bainbridge, Georgia, Wolf Creek Trout Lily Preserve is an ephemeral gem for flower lovers. For just a few weeks each year, this 140 acre county-owned parcel offers a Lilliputian spectacle in the form of a woodland ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By michelebell | Views [1603] | Scholarship Entry
The parade arrived with a few deep tuba blasts as the band crested the hill on Louisiana Ave. The sun bounced between the brass instruments as they played “Sweetest Taboo.” A hundred people or more trailed behind the band, everyone dancing their own march-... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By lizhaq | Views [135] | Scholarship Entry
Escape. The word holds the promise of salvation. It soothes our ache to shed our shackles, both imagined and imposed. It’s been co-opted by air fresheners and airlines, video games and fragrances; dangled in front of our faces, just out of reach. The ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By jwekkin | Views [132] | Scholarship Entry
Musty, the most common word used to describe the smell of old books, isn’t quite right. Musty suggests moldy, stale, something that’s time has passed. Instead, I imagine the smell of roots, anchored beneath soil that supports whatever life ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By wanderingeli | Views [317] | Scholarship Entry
The Dauphine Street Bookstore is the kind of place I want my dust to settle after I die; a place where my skin cells can reincarnate again and again in between the pages of a thousand stories. It is a place where booklovers can come to both rejoice in ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By deebeider | Views [221] | Comments [2] | Scholarship Entry
City Girls and Volcanoes I stepped onto the cracked, slate-colored earth and glanced up at the sky. Blue. One speck of color in this otherwise grey and barren landscape. The caldera floor stretched for miles before me, lying in wait beneath the towering ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By saranade07 | Views [129] | Scholarship Entry
The sky is clear with only a few wisps of cotton candy clouds. I’m walking quickly, almost a run. I have to escape the bantering across the aisle, the hoards of tourists pushing to see the brittle papers declaring our freedoms, the clicks of camera phones ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By mccaly | Views [137] | Scholarship Entry
I accepted a job offer that required me to start at the beginning of the next week. I loaded up my car near Portland, Oregon, added a new bumper sticker, and headed for Denver, Colorado. Four states in four days - that’s what I had to make to start ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By galire | Views [266] | Scholarship Entry
My husband invited me to come along on his business trip to Tampa. Our first morning there, as we enjoyed a healthy, refreshing breakfast, he asked the waiter for the newspaper. I was browsing through a brochure. I had at least 8 hours for myself. As ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By yoshic | Views [182] | Comments [3]
OK, I am not actually Prometheus - having neither stolen fire from the gods, or been punished for it by being chained to a rock for eternity and having an eagle pick out my liver by day, only to regrow it over night ready to start again in the morning ... Read more >
Tue, 26 May 2015 | By oregontotexasandback | Views [117] | Scholarship Entry
From a distance the Sonoran Desert looks green but close up the bushes are thinly spread in the barren sand with a few cactuses dotted about here and there like props in a Western movie. I half expected to see a posse ride across the highway. The empty ... Read more >
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Tue, 26 May 2015 | By caleyando | Views [113] | Scholarship Entry
Travel was between Houston and San Francisco and return, in only 15 days and in car!!. It was incredible, 4000 milles crossing USA.
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