Maxine Rose Schur

There She Goes

There She Goes: Travel Stories Told By the Women Who Wrote Them: Today we travel with Maxine Rose Schur to Iran, where she finds unexpected warmth, comfort – and trust – through a silent twilight ritual with a stranger… Maxine appeared on the There She Goes Podcast, episode “S1E10: Maxine Rose Schur, The Ritual,” from herContinue reading “There She Goes”

A Children’s Book Character Can Have Life-Changing Influence

When I was five years old, soon after I started kindergarten, I got rheumatic fever. The disease left me weak and crippled. I was unable to walk for a year. I could not attend school and because rheumatic fever is contagious, I was not allowed to be with other children. The home teacher sent toContinue reading “A Children’s Book Character Can Have Life-Changing Influence”

Adnan’s Secret

High in the pine-covered mountains of southern Turkey, there lie the ruins of the only city Alexander the Great could not conquer. Termessos is its name. In January, when the air is dry and the sage bushes from which the Turks make their healing tea have grown scraggly, there are few visitors. This is theContinue reading “Adnan’s Secret”