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I had a substantial issue planned for you, including an essay on the No Kings Day protests and why it struck me as a sad day for my fellow Baby Boomers…
I was in Myrtle Beach last week for a get-together with nine of my high-school friends. We’ve been meeting there every October for about the last 30…
I’m in NYC for a week to attend the wedding of one of my nine beautiful, intelligent, and talented nieces. K and I have been holed up in The Wall…
K and I are in Lisbon. We’ve been here for two days getting ready for the incoming tide of 40+ Fords and Fitzgeralds that will all be here with us – if…
K and I are in Portugal for 12 days. The first five days by ourselves to check out Porto, which K tells me we’ve never visited before. And next week in…
From the moment we arrived in Nice, I was seduced by the natural beauty of the coast, with its rugged cliffs and hidden coves, sweeping bays and…
After three pleasant and profitable days at Courtomer, I returned to Paris, where K and I spent another three days revisiting some of our favorite…
K and I are in Paris again. Happily. Nostalgically. Our first trip here was in 1976, halfway through my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in Chad, a…
1. There Are No Stop Signs in Paris Paris has no stop signs. The last one was removed from Quai Saint-Exupéry in 2016. Instead, drivers follow the…
The Friday before last, I forgot to give Gio the go-ahead on sending out the “we will be open tonight” notice for my cigar club, so I wasn’t expecting…
Los Bailarines y los Bebedores, Benjamin Cañas I’m not sure if I told you about my new plan for my Central American art collection. The original idea…
I spent 10 days at Rancho Santana at the end of March. It was the first of what I hope will be at least a half-dozen trips down there this year and…
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