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Lovely, Lively Lisbon

After a terrific ten days in northern Portugal with GrapeHops, a wine-food-and-fun-focused group, I took a train south to Lisbon.  An elegant, beautiful city, Lisbon is also (relatively) inexpensive and packed with friendly people, many of whom speak English. (My … Continue reading

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Civics Lessons

  Over the weekend a friend and I went to the new Monumental Women sculpture in Central Park. The women shown are 19th century women’s rights activists, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (both New Yorkers) and Sojourner Truth, … Continue reading

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Franklin and Eleanor Redux

The village of Hyde Park is about an hour and a half north of NYC, a lovely drive especially when fall foliage is at peak or close. The official name of the home where FDR was born, lived and is … Continue reading

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‘Twas the Afternoon Before…

As we have done for the last three years on Christmas Eve afternoon, some members of my family and I went to see the gingerbread creations at NYCs Parker Meriden hotel. My older daughter and her daughter wore their reindeer … Continue reading

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