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Articles By: Judith Shaw

Judith Shaw is a freelance editor who studied Classical Chinese at Yale, lived for many years in Asia and Australia and has a deep and abiding love of dogs and horses. She has been a student of Milli's Fear of Writing Online Course and the Fear of Writing Grad Course and is now a happy client at Writer’s Muse Coaching. Judith lives in western Massachusetts with her Australian husband and her Jack Russell Terrier, but sadly, no more horses.

Bushwalking, sailing, Ents and dinosaurs: a Great Barrington winter escape Down Under

Story by guest blogger Judith Shaw. Photos Copyright © Judith Shaw THE BEST THING about our arrival in Sydney was the warmth. It was a toasty 27 degrees centigrade, or 81 in Fahrenheit. At home in western Massachusetts it was freezing. We’d had more than a month of the Polar Vortex, and if you counted...