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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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Edna

As in St. Vincent Millay who called herself Vincent. She would have turned 125 last February 22nd; it’s also the 100th anniversary of her graduation from Vassar College, my alma mater. I was invited to a celebration of her life … Continue reading

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Hallelujah!

  I’m sort of a Messiah groupie in that I try to go to a performance every holiday season; sang some of the work with my high school glee club and once, not so long ago, went to the sign-along … Continue reading

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Eternity

Dorothy Parker (above) is credited with coining the phrase “eternity is two people and a ham.”  Parker, poet, satirist and one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table,   reviewed books for The New Yorker under the name “Constant Reader. … Continue reading

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