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A photo journey to a Tuscan villa

This week we will visit the small hilltop town of Castelmuzio in the heart of Tuscany. You can be there in all its glory too, ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, July 22, 2011 12:26 pm

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A bookstore with a canal entrance

Who would ever have imagined that you could enter a bookstore from a canal? As a former owner of a bookstore, I had to see ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, July 15, 2011 6:06 pm

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Jaywalking in front of speeding Italian buses

Jaywalking in front of speeding buses Italians drive the strangest autos. Never have I witnessed such a variety of design of vehicles than from our ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, July 8, 2011 5:25 pm

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Internet makes traveling simple

We saw the Pope. We sat there in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, described as the most impressive church on earth, among thousands of people ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, July 1, 2011 5:06 pm

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Of mules and how to talk to stepsons

One finds insights in the strange corners sometimes, a simple observation that makes a mountain of sense. The strange corner came from the magazine, Southern ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, June 24, 2011 7:24 pm

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Discovering ancient truisms

It’s fun to discover something from an archive written nearly 100 years ago, which could have historical implications today. No, we are not talking about ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, June 17, 2011 7:42 pm

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Joining the electronic library

At our house, this week, we purchased our second Kindle e-book reader. The first Kindle was a Christmas gift last year, bought from Amazon.com while ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, June 3, 2011 6:46 pm

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Holding on to grandma

The rhetoric about the current Medicare debate is that grandma is getting all the blame. The horror stories have returned, as both Democrats and Republicans ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, May 27, 2011 4:28 pm

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More playtime within our borders

So what’s the big attraction here with all those motel rooms out by U.S. 27 and the by-pass? It has been said that Bainbridge is ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, May 20, 2011 5:33 pm

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Musings from a great writer

In an old interview replayed on TV recently, noted Southern Civil War Author Shelby Foote was discussing his favorite writers. But his favorite of all ... Read more

by Jim Smith, Friday, May 13, 2011 8:50 pm

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