Comments on: Best Travel Writing–Solas Award for Riehl’s “Driving Lessons” http://www.riehlife.com/2007/03/31/best-travel-writing-solas-award-for-riehls-driving-lessons/ Creating connections through the arts and across cultures Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Elizabeth Parker http://www.riehlife.com/2007/03/31/best-travel-writing-solas-award-for-riehls-driving-lessons/comment-page-1/#comment-28 Elizabeth Parker Sat, 07 Apr 2007 14:57:35 +0000 http://www.riehlife.com/2007/03/31/best-travel-writing-solas-award-for-riehls-driving-lessons/#comment-28 Notably absent from Janet's driving lessons account is the experience of driving up and down her driveway -- on ice! (Picture Cashel in Ireland with the road winding around the hill to get up to the castle.) I guess that steep, winding drive was part of Janet's landscape such that she didn't notice it. Sort of like how, because we Altonians had to go down hills to get to downtown Alton, I thought all "downtowns" were thusly situated. Great piece! Liz Parker, contributor, Heartland Women's Writer Guild anthology, "Orchids in the Cornfield Notably absent from Janet's driving lessons account is the
experience of driving up and down her driveway -- on ice! (Picture Cashel in Ireland with the road winding around the hill to get up to the castle.) I guess that steep, winding drive was part of Janet's landscape such that she didn't notice it. Sort of like how, because we Altonians had to go down hills to get to downtown Alton, I thought all "downtowns" were thusly situated.

Great piece!

Liz Parker, contributor, Heartland Women's Writer Guild anthology, "Orchids in the Cornfield

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