Feb 3, 2021
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Thinking about a Royal Caribbean cruise? You have a lot of options.
The world’s biggest cruise line by passenger capacity operates voyages in almost every corner of the world, from the Caribbean to the waters around Australia and New Zealand.
Aiding Royal Caribbean’s reach is its fleet of 24 oceangoing ships more than almost any other major cruise line. Only Carnival Cruise Line has as many.
Thinking about a Royal Caribbean cruise? You have a lot of options. The world’s biggest cruise line by passenger capacity operates voyages in almost every corner of the world, from the Caribbean to the waters around Australia and New Zealand. Aiding Royal Caribbean’s reach is its fleet of 24 oceangoing ships more than almost …
and an associate professor of creative writing at Bradley University. He lives in Chicago with his wife and kids.
During my high school years, from 1994 to 1997, I worked in the Alzheimer’s unit of a nursing home. It was one of the few places in my suburb of Buffalo, New York, that would hire a 16-year-old, and it took me on mainly because no one else wanted to work there. I had to serve pureed turkey, fish sticks, and peas to people who mumbled or screamed as they swatted their bowls to the ground out of confusion or rage. So much time in close proximity to the dying made me look at my youth as its own form of currency. It was a big world, so I decided I’d better get started seeing it and figuring out who to be within it. Though I didn’t have any means or money, I was confident I could work any awful job as long as it let me explore an interesting place.