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12/5/25
Cruising the River and Meandering in the Garden
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( More pictures will appear on my Saturday Facebook page .) I’m getting down to the last few sites from my October trip to France....
12/3/25
Where Are My Choices?
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Sometimes capitalism is enough to inspire communists! We’ve been told since were little that, unlike “socialist” countries, our...
12/1/25
The Bookshop by Evan Friss
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The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore (2014) By Evan Friss Viking, 312 pages + Back Matter ★★★★ An unus...
11/26/25
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Thanksgiving Etiquette: Don’t Be a Turkey In movie terms, a “turkey” is a flop; in slang it means a foolish or obnoxious person...
11/24/25
Dream of the Middle Ages at Beynac
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This might have been my favorite place that I visited. Like many places in the ...
11/21/25
State of the Union Isn't About Today. It Just Feels That Way!
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State of the Union (1948) Directed by Frank Capra MGM, 124 minutes, Not-rated. ★★★ ½ State of the Union feels strange...
11/19/25
What We Can Know
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What We Can Know (2025) By Ian McEwan Alfred A. Knopf, 299 pages. ★★★★ I’ve heard people complain that the fiction mark...
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