Steven Hansen
The Remotest Island in the World
Next time you feel like really getting away from it all, why not sail on down to Tristan da Cunha? It’s the remotest inhabited island on...
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Steven Hansen
- May 29
- 8 min
“Recalculating… Enjoy Your Trip!”
Thank ye tech gods for inventing GPS, and the Google Maps lady whose calm and confident navigation gets us where we need to go!...
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Steven Hansen
- Apr 28
- 8 min
Great Passageways
We are always moving. Crossing passageways from point A to point B, beginning to end, winter to spring, border to border, good to bad,...
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Steven Hansen
- Mar 12
- 1 min
7 Minutes of Joy: Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
One of the most amazing natural wonders of the world is the annual migration of the beautiful orange and black Monarch butterfly (Danaus...
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Steven Hansen
- Feb 23
- 2 min
World’s Booklovers Open 125,000 Miniature Libraries
Traverse City, MI Small town ideas sometimes turn into stunning worldwide movements. Long before the popular tiny house trend, were the...
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Steven Hansen
- Jan 19
- 2 min
Really Underground Book Reviews
Any book that can hold the attention of a New Yorker riding a jam-packed subway car that's screeching and lurching through the bowels of...
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HA Staff
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
Heart to Heart Stories: A Real Secret Santa Delivers
Not enough years ago, I was sitting outside my second story apartment on the stairs outside my door. It was late on Christmas Eve. My son...
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Steven Hansen
- Dec 1, 2021
- 3 min
Gather Around the Storytelling Radio
One big lesson we learned early on in the pandemic was how much we missed being together with other humans in those everyday social...
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Steven Hansen
- Oct 25, 2021
- 2 min
Caution: Buying Art May Be Addictive
For less than the price of a pack of cig’s, you can own an original painting by a noted artist. Or a piece of handmade jewelry, a...
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
A New Ritual is Born in Denmark
The stunning new public library building in Aarhus, Denmark, seems to float above the shining sea of the city’s revitalized waterfront....
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Steven Hansen
- Sep 6, 2021
- 3 min
142 Days on the Appalachian Trail
In early spring of 2018, St. Louis-area business attorney Evan Schaeffer decided it was time to go outside and take a walk in the woods –...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 16, 2021
- 1 min
Banksy’s Summer 'Spraycation'
Sure, he’s subversive, political, and anti-art-establishment, but England’s mysterious and often-maddening street artist Banksy can sure...
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Steven Hansen
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
8 Minutes of Joy: Firefly Sanctuary
Follow adventure traveler Mike Corey into the Magic Forest near Nanacamilpa, Tlaxcala, Mexico, to see one of the most amazing sights of...
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Steven Hansen
- Jul 12, 2021
- 1 min
Concrete Zen Moments
When you see a fire hydrant or mailbox or trash can magically highlighted by waves of concentric painted ripples, you do take notice --...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 30, 2021
- 3 min
Old School Cool
Maybe you think about it once a year – that first blistering day in June that catches you off guard, before you’ve put the AC units back...
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Deena Ebbert
- Jun 22, 2021
- 1 min
Heart to Heart Stories: Going Home
Home. You can go back home, no matter what the tropes say. You can have laughs and yummy food and good conversations and hugs. You can...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 9, 2021
- 2 min
There are Nests in These Library Branches!
One thing we’ve learned to appreciate over the past year is the nurturing need to nest. Not just the act of staying safe and healthy at...
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Steven Hansen
- Jun 2, 2021
- 1 min
Heart to Heart Stories: A Father's Love
Nate, a high school student in Michigan at the time, sent this letter to FCKH8.com, an activist organization for gay youth, who posted it...
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Steven Hansen
- May 19, 2021
- 2 min
The Boy Who Can’t Stop Doodling
“My favorite things to doodle are monsters, aliens and food,” says 11-year-old Joe Whale, aka “The Doodle Boy,” the creative wunderkind...
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Steven Hansen
- May 13, 2021
- 1 min
55 Seconds of Joy
When Omarr K. Rambert, a recent UCLA School of Law graduate, found out on January 8 that he had passed the California Bar Exam, he was...
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