: About Me

A media junkie and consultant, Laurie Kaiser has worked as a a writer and editor for more than 25 years, most recently as founding editor of a successful regional home-remodeling magazine. She has written for newspapers, magazines and academic journals and has taught media and other writing at the college level. She is also a certified teacher, grades 5-12.

My parents always told me ...

to be honest and hardworking

My childhood ambition ...

to be a writer

Why I write ...

It's an inner compulsion.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

A Year by the Sea by Joan Anderson

My first job ...

Very first? babysitter Real first? newspaper reporter

My best moment ...

when I became a mother

Local Guides > Massachusetts (Other) A local's guide to Cape Cod, MA

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The danger in withholding the truth about a travel destination lies in misleading people to spend hard-earned money visiting a place that is very different from the one depicted in the brochure or magazine. Case in point: Provincetown on Cape Cod, which many travel writers tend to softpedal. To those in the know, Provincetown is a premier gay destination, and in the high season of summer, especially, it's very difficult to escape the raw sexuality, or homosexuality, of the place. Kurt Kissler of Fredericksburg, Va., discovered this fact a bit painfully when he traveled to P-town, as locals...

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