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Sharon Barr

We’re on the road!

1 min readApr 17, 2021

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Sharon Barr

What Will We Do When We Can’t Turn our Cameras Off?

We’ve learned new ways to escape being noticed this year, novel ways to disengage. We disappeared through technology, muting our voices…

4 min readMar 9, 2021

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Sharon Barr

A Jew and Christmas Trees

My relationship with Christmas trees began when I was a child. In my upstate New York suburb in the 1960s, mine was one of very few Jewish…

4 min readDec 20, 2020

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A Jew and Christmas Trees

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Sharon Barr

Learning to Live with Fear

“Growing dread and acceptance of the winter ahead is weighing on Americans’ physical and mental health and raising fears about debt and…

6 min readDec 9, 2020

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Learning to Live with Fear

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Sharon Barr

This is My Brain on Spanish: Learning Language as an Adult

I am sitting in a nail salon in Oaxaca. Carmen, the young manicurist sporting a black t-shirt with a white skull and the words “NEW YORK…

5 min readFeb 18, 2020

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This is My Brain on Spanish: Learning Language as an Adult

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Sharon Barr

Leaving Philly: Starting a New Life in the Adirondacks

Shortly before I left Philadelphia for good, I found myself in a crowded noisy courtroom in City Hall. On one side, the Painted Bride, a…

5 min readJan 20, 2020

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Leaving Philly: Starting a New Life in the Adirondacks

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Sharon Barr

An Accursed Mountains Trek into Timeless Albania

Albania evokes images of ancient blood feuds and Communist isolation, of which remnants of both remain. In the Accursed Mountains…

6 min readJun 19, 2019

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An Accursed Mountains Trek into Timeless Albania

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Sharon Barr

Seeing the World Through Dance: Or How I Learned to Samba

Many visitors go to a new place yearning to sample the food. Tasting street tacos in Mexico City, poutin in Quebec City, or jambalaya in…

5 min readMay 1, 2019

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Seeing the World Through Dance: Or How I Learned to Samba

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Sharon Barr

A Chiva Bus and a Discovery on a Colombian Beach

The evening air of Santa Marta hung warm and thick. Three chivas, traditional farm transport turned Colombian party bus, were waiting in…

4 min readMar 18, 2019

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A Chiva Bus and a Discovery on a Colombian Beach

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Sharon Barr

Why Everyone Should Travel With an Octogenarian

Barcelona is the perfect city to visit with an octogenarian. Old people walk slowly. In 2012, I was visiting Barcelona with my then…

5 min readFeb 13, 2019

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Why Everyone Should Travel With an Octogenarian

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Sharon Barr

Sharon Barr

Urbanist who lives in the wilderness. Planner + Strategist. Real estate consultant to nonprofits. Attorney. Traveler (both near and far). Yoga teacher. Writer.

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