by Stowaway Magazine | Nov 8, 2017 | Fall 2017, Letter from the Editor
I was born with a few vision issues: amblyopia, nearsightedness, third-nerve palsy. So, I always wondered if I saw things how other people saw them. Once I was camping in the mountains in Washington with friends, and one of them looked off into the evergreen valley...
by Stowaway Magazine | Jan 9, 2016 | Letter from the Editor, Winter 2016
“What brings you to Salt Lake?” I ask the man sitting next to me on the train. “I was visiting my ill father in Portland, and now I’m here for the night before going back to Spain,” the man replies. “Spain? Are you from there?” “Of sorts,” he replies. “I train...
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 27, 2015 | Letter from the Editor, Spring 2015
In Lewis Carroll’s well-known tale Alice in Wonderland, Alice comes across many fascinating creatures and odd happenings. Toward the end of her adventures, Alice comes to converse with a caterpillar and says, “I’m not myself, you see.” “So you think you’re changed,...
by Stowaway Magazine | Oct 8, 2013 | Fall 2013, Letter from the Editor
I grew up in a tourist trap, surrounded on every side by meccas for the traveler. From the front door of my childhood home, you can drive 40 minutes in any direction and end up in one of America’s must-see locations: the Golden Gate Bridge, the vineyards of Napa...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Letter from the Editor
My mom will tell you that I’m a bag lady. I have a weakness for bags of all sizes, colors, shapes, and functions, and I hoard them shamelessly. In a single day, I might use three or four different bags. When I studied in London last summer, the occasion indisputably...
