Meredith Norton thought she had reconciled herself to certain oddities of life in France.  She could accept and even be amused by being mistaken for a prostitute by half the male Parisian... ...

Exotic ports of call, snorkeling and scuba diving, halcyon islands, exhilarating high seas – who wouldn’t want to go sailing through paradise?  John and Jean Silverwood dreamed of just such a...

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Half and Susanne Zantop, well-respected and hard-working professors at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, were eager to assist the two high school students from Vermont who came knocking at their...

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Niall and Chris, a young married couple, dreamed of Ireland; they would leave cramped, dirty Manhattan and the pressures of corporate life to make a new start in a small cottage in County Clare on... ...

In a decrepit birthing house in a small village in Mali, Monique, the village’s midwife and health worker, brings new life to the village.  Equipped only with a small medical kit, a plastic tub,... ...