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Birding in France

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I must shop!

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Department of the Unexpected?

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Snail Shortage? In France?

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Journey to the Center of . . .

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St. Malo: Kayakers

The colors of St. Malo in Brittany are quite interesting. English channel haze subdues, but add the bright colors of kayaks being dragged from the beach into the water and the contrast is quite compelling…

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Literary Watering Holes - Paris and Elsewhere

Where have all the literati gone? I miss the beats in North Beach. I wish I could have been in Paris when Henry Miller was making the rounds with his friends and bedbugs.

I’m placing bets on the economic disaster of our times. We like to fork over the public’s money to the rich, who spend it wisely in good economic times, then look to make gambling games out of people’s lives when nobody’s buying (ah, that long gone demand side of the economy), when no reasonably intelligent person would invest in factories and infrastructure…

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