Tag: vacation

• New Creative Nonfiction: Travel and COVID

  I am honored to have this CNF published in Months to Years Literary Mag. A few months ago, during a writing workshop that focused on grief, I considered the loss of travel and the tremendous pause that fell over the hospitality industry in general. I imagined myself wandering through a ghostlike airport, its surfaces speckled…

  KellyQAnderson

  August 24, 2021

  Lifestyle

  airport, amwriting, Chicago, chicago writer, covid, grief, midwest writer, pandemic, Travel, travel industry, traveling, vacation, writing prompt, writing workshop

• City Girl Confessions: The Art of Missing Home

  City Girl Confessions is my recurring column published via The Glencoe Anchor. My husband once proclaimed that five days is the ideal getaway. Shorter than 5? That’s great. But longer? That’s when home sickness can start to creep in. Hold up, though. I’m not talking about the slow ache that can come from deep longing-…

  KellyQAnderson

  April 5, 2019

  Columns, Travel

  amwriting, Chicago, Chicago north shore, chicago suburbs, chicago writer, city girl, city girl confessions, family vacation, glencoe, home, homesick, Midwest, midwest writer, Parenting, quirks, southern living, spring, spring break, sunshine, texas, Travel, traveling, vacation