Pamela Wright

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright

New Hampshire is home to several famous and award-winning authors. The New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame includes Robert Frost, John Irving, Ernest Thompson, Donald Hall, Grace Metalious, Harriet E. Wilson, Tomie dePaola, Maxine Kumin, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, Charles Simic, Anita Shreve, David McPhail, and Donald M. Murray.

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright

Assuming you haven’t married someone from that country (citizenship by marriage), or weren’t born there (citizenship by birthright), there are three ways to go about it: By descent, by residency (naturalization), and by investment. A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Descent is pretty straightforward. If one or more of your ancestors came from a country that grants it, you can get citizenship through lineage.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright

NEWPORT, R.I. — Spring is sprouting in Newport, and we’re here for it. “It’s so close to home, but it has that vacation vibe,” says Dr. Seth Jones of Marstons Mills, who recently headed there for a quick family getaway. Never mind that it’s not quite sailing-and-al fresco-oyster-slurping-season — it will be soon. Year after year, this seaport city charms everyone from bachelorette parties to tennis buffs to mansion mavens.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright

Back in the ’90s, Jo Johnston, a busy professional living in Dallas, took her first big cruise, and really enjoyed it. Fast forward: Johnston retired, sold her home and her car, and now spends 10 months or more out of the year on back-to-back, long-range cruises aboard Holland America, her preferred cruise line. She’s gone on three of their 120+ day Grand World Voyages, and several 30 to 50-plus day cruises. In all, she estimates that she’s spent more than 1,100 days cruising with Holland America.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Diane Bair |Pamela Wright

MONTREAL — ”Fries and cheese and gravy. What’s not to like?” said our server at Poutineville. Indeed. In honor of National Poutine Day, April 11, we visited our northerly neighbor to celebrate all things poutine. OK, we’re lying. We just wanted an excuse to eat French fries, and lots of ‘em. For work. Plus, Montréal! We love Montreal. We’d always thought of poutine, one of Canada’s national dishes and a standard in Quebec cuisine, as the ultimate hangover food, or a late-night nosh.