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Written by Leanne Esposito Let’s focus on the word adventure! An unusual and exciting or daring experience or an undertaking usually involving danger and unknown risks. Whatever its meaning I think I had more than a brief encounter with adventure this past week floating around the islands of Fiji. Bula Vinaka good people of the…

Written by Leanne Esposito This column is all about words. With a master’s degree in creative writing, editing, and publishing, I’ve made words my world. It wasn’t always this way. As a child of the sixties, I was a free-ranging, sporty kid who never touched a book. It may have had something to do with…

Written by Leanne Esposito The famous African proverb, it takes a village to raise a child, still rings as true to this day. Modern western societies where individuality is revered are not theoretically considered as collective as their eastern counterparts. The view is that the western mother gets on with raising her baby inside a…