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  • In memory of Shannon, please ‘get swabbed’
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    In memory of Shannon, please ‘get swabbed’

    ByEileen Ogintz November 3, 2010June 28, 2023

    I love to see people live their dreams whether on vacation or at home. But sometimes, that dream is all too fleeting. All 11-year-old Shannon Tavarez wanted to do was perform on stage. She beat out hundreds of children in an open audition to win the role of Nala in The Lion King on Broadway.

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  • Get your own Santa visit at Sandestin
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    Get your own Santa visit at Sandestin

    ByEileen Ogintz November 3, 2010June 28, 2023

    If you are staying at the resort, you can arrange to have Santa come to your condo or cottage—gift in hand (he presented me with a soft stuffed lamb complete with a tag that reads “To Eileen from Santa”) and read a holiday story to the kids

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  • Four Days at Sandestin Resort
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    Four Days at Sandestin Resort

    ByEileen Ogintz November 2, 2010June 28, 2023

    Welcome to Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Destin, FL on the Gulf Coast about halfway between Pensacola and Panama City. You’re just a little more than four hours from Atlanta or Birmingham; five from New Orleans and eight from Dallas.

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  • To the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park
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    To the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park

    ByEileen Ogintz October 28, 2010June 28, 2023

    We’re riding in a truck on a photo caravan into the heart of the large animal enclosures, which means, as we bump along, we get up close to not only the rhinos (Southern white, as well as greater one-horned) but also the giraffes (try feeding leaves to two giraffes at once!), Springbok, Cape buffalo, ostrich, Defassa Waterbuck, zebras and more.

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  • What to do when you lose your passport while traveling abroad
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    What to do when you lose your passport while traveling abroad

    ByEileen Ogintz October 22, 2010June 28, 2023

    I’m still not sure where or how it happened that day in Florence. Our passports were securely in my purse but that evening, the leather envelope I carried them in was gon

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  • To Kauai — Now the Adventure Isle
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    To Kauai — Now the Adventure Isle

    ByEileen Ogintz October 21, 2010June 28, 2023

    We’ve driven to the end of Kuhio Highway on the North Shore of Kauai to Ke’e beach — past some of the most luxuriant plants I’ve ever seen. Spectacular beaches abound here on Kauai, including Lumahai beach where Mitzi Gaynor “washed that man right out of her hair” for the filming of “South Pacific.” There’s also the town of Hanalei of “Puff the Magic Dragon” fame

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  • Are you ready for ghosts and goblins?
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    Are you ready for ghosts and goblins?

    ByAndy Yemma October 15, 2010November 10, 2025

    This year, there are thousands of haunted attractions around the country to choose from that offer chills and thrills for most of the fall. Even Broadway is getting in on the act

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  • To Steamboat Springs
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    To Steamboat Springs

    ByEileen Ogintz October 14, 2010June 28, 2023

    The story goes that in the early 1800s a French trapper heard a noisy hot spring that reminded him of a steamboat. When the railroad was built in 1908, the formations around the spring were changed and the chugging sound was lost. Still, the name stuck.

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  • How to survive and have fun on college tours with your kids
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    How to survive and have fun on college tours with your kids

    ByEileen Ogintz October 8, 2010June 28, 2023

    Anyone who has ever toured colleges with a high school student — and I was on my third round that Boston weekend — knows that’s no small feat. I’ve driven four hours to have my son refuse to get out of the car because he didn’t like the look of the campus

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  • Meeting Up with Some Ghosts and Goblins
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    Meeting Up with Some Ghosts and Goblins

    ByEileen Ogintz October 7, 2010June 28, 2023

    Halloween is no longer just about trick or treating in the neighborhood. That’s old school — apparently. Instead, you can take your pick of zoos, museums, theme parks, campgrounds, big cities, small ones — all of which have Halloween doings guaranteed to scare the teens and plenty of benign “spooky” fun for the littlest ghosts and goblins.

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