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I don’t drink beer. I drink wine.  When I go out for dinner or meet up with friends I enjoy a glass or two of red wine. Most of my friends drink wine. I know a lot of people who drink wine. But I don’t know many wine drinkers who have picked the grapes that [...]

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  Do you know how easy it is to be a vegetarian in the United States? 

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From Plaka, a pretty town north of Agio Nikolaos in eastern Crete, the island of Spinalonga looks invitingly close.  Just a hop, skip and a paddle away by sea kayak—or so it seemed. 

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Nineteen women writers tell of their love for this amazingly beautiful country in Greece, A Love Story (Seal Press, 2007)  This is Colleen’s story: I first touched Greek soil in April, 1975, when you could voyage from Haifa to Herakleion by ship (now defunct), camp out in the caves at Matala (now prohibited) and watch [...]

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An Historic First:  Greeks and Turks cycle together for peace, friendship and against global warming.   Izmir, Turkey to Thessaloniki, Greece.  June 16-27, 2007. I’m an American traveling on an Italian passport riding with the Greek team.  Read my daily reports posted from internet cafes en route! Day 1 : Report from İzmir We arrıved in [...]

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First published in Neo magazine, New York City, June, 2008 By COLLEEN McGUIRE Greeks find it strange that someone called Colleen McGuire has adopted Greece as a homeland.  My name is Celtic to the core.  When I announce that my maternal grandfather’s name was Oreste Spadafora, big smiles break out, “Oh, the namesake of King [...]

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I  COLLEEN F. McGUIRE  — I was a housing rights lawyer with my own law firm in New York City for 16 years until the gods of Greece called for me.   I now run CycleGreece, a company offering awesome odysseys on ancient terrain.

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