Donatella Lorch

Donatella Lorch's son running the dunes just before sunset.

A dream realized: Adventure in Arabian Peninsula’s ‘Empty Quarter’

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What is the appeal of this desert sand? “This is the one place that I had desperately wanted to discover as a young girl,” writes a former New York Times correspondent during her dusty journey. “It had only taken me 40 years to get here.”

The author's mother celebrates her 93rd birthday in Kenya

This mom let her daughter skip the dishes so she could read Tolstoy

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