For more work by Diane, please visit: http://www.examiner.com/x-10684-International-Travel-Examiner www.dianelebow.com BATW continues to flourish in so many ways, and our 2010 planning is well underway.  A new president, vice president and webmaster are needed for the new year. The September meeting...

Welcome to our many new members, including: Active members: Angela Nickerson Ken Matusow Marybeth Bond Timothy Williamson Richard Jordan Provisional Member: Annet Dragavon Associate Members: Adam Soldinger of SkiResorts.com Amanda Watkins of Edelman Seattle We’re delighted you have joined Bay Area...

The BATW ezine/website features 16 articles on the home page — but this month’s ezine/website actually has twice that many articles, and some months it’s three times or more.  Here’s how to find the rest of them:

“Teaching Cops to See” could be retitled “Teaching Travel Writers to See.”  This course by Amy Herman, an art historian and lawyer, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art helps people develop their skills at seeing details.  This helps police and detectives solve crimes...

Jack Rosenthal‘s fun article “Phantonym” in the “On Language” column in the Sept. 27 New York Times Magazine is also helpful.  He talks about words that sound like another word but really mean something very different, including: fulsome noisome enormity disinterested enervated fortuitous penultimate presently restive arguably –...

The Shams Ensemble performing at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco (photos by John Montgomery) [Thanks to Diane LeBow for writing about this wonderful event.] Teresa Rodriguez Williamson, founder and president of Tango Diva, a social networking site and ezine for women travelers, and author of Fly...

Many thanks to David Sanger, who has set up a members-only BATW Yahoo Group for the timely exchange of information among members.   Here are David’s instructions for members to sign up:

Congratulations to Glen Putman, who won “First Place for Magazine Feature Columns in 2008” for his travel columns for Gentry magazine at the 32nd Annual Awards competition of the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.  Glen, who is travel editor for the upscale magazine, won the same award...

Congratulations to Ginger Dingus, who has a magazine feature, “Just Cruise It!,” in the Sept./Oct. issue of AAA Traveler. She says that in her article, she fills travelers in on a dozen fun things they “must do” while cruising. Ginger should know. She’s says she’s...

Congratulations to Judith Wylie, who has an article in Suite101.com based on the BATW meeting in Half Moon Bay: http://california-travel.suite101.com/article.cfm/pillar_point_princetonbythesea_moss_beach