A Round Trip to Bogotá
Gerry Klein PROLOGUE While cleaning up after a recent flood in our house I came across a letter I had written and sent to a Swiss friend...
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Earl Fowler
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MEDITERRANEAN HOMESICK CRUISE
The less tomorrow becomes thinkable, the more license to splurge today: a system’s impending demise may reveal itself in feverish...
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Earl Fowler
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Taking Chances
Hyman Weisbord Chapter 1. The TRIP Like you, I have read colourful newspaper reports and seen happy TV news stories about septuagenarians...
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Earl Fowler
Nov 24, 20234 min read
GHOSTS OF A LONG FORGOTTEN PAST
Editor’s note: The following reminiscence was inspired by Guy Sprung’s poem, Food for Thought, published in this blog on Nov. 22, 2023....
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fareed20
Feb 7, 20213 min read
Miss-Taken
By Fred A. Reed I can hear the eyebrows zipping up like windowshades already. But I’m going to go ahead and do it. Tell what happened to...
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fareed20
Dec 3, 20203 min read
When it rains where it never rains
By Fred A. Reed When I mentioned to a dear old friend that I was contemplating writing about rain, he immediately sent me the lyrics to...
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David Sherman
Oct 15, 20203 min read
Cranes of Agadir
By Fred A. Reed When I look eastward out of the kitchen window every morning, I survey the urban roof-scape of Agadir, our Moroccan...
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David Sherman
Jul 26, 20202 min read
The Shirt That Prompts Sweet Dreams
By Fred Reed Morocco – One of the many advantages of growing old is that you have more time to remember. Providing you haven’t forgotten...
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David Sherman
May 21, 20204 min read
Unique Ramadan Offers Unique Insight
By Fred Reed Dear old friend! I’m replying to your suggestion that I write about Ramadan in Morocco. After several days of hesitation and...
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David Sherman
May 4, 20203 min read
Sun, moon brighter than ever
By Fred Reed Dearest old friend, I’m going to pursue the writing of this note intermittently as other tasks may intervene. But what’s the...
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David Sherman
Apr 5, 20202 min read
Letter from Agadir, Morocco
From Fred Reed Dear old friend! As the days blend imperceptibly into weeks and maybe even into months, we’ve become adept at observing...
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David Sherman
Mar 12, 20204 min read
Baseball in the time of cholera
By Jay Stone DUNEDIN, Fla. — The senior citizen finds himself in Florida in the middle of a worldwide epidemic because it was a trip...
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David Sherman
Mar 10, 20203 min read
Chosen by the Moroccan Winds
By Fred Reed Agadir, Morocco – When the East wind blows, our town goes slightly crazy. Plastic bottles bounce and roll down the street...
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David Sherman
Feb 26, 20205 min read
Grey-beards stalk Picasso
By Jay Stone TORREMOLINOS, Spain – A few years ago I was in Barcelona, where, once upon all time, Pablo Picasso went to school. As a...
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David Sherman
Feb 25, 20203 min read
Intensifying the joyification of Spain
By Jay Stone MIJAS, Spain — It’s easy to fall in love with this picturesque town high on a mountain above Spain’s Costa del Sol: its...
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David Sherman
Feb 25, 20203 min read
My Facebook Friend Went To Marbella and All I Got Was This Lousy Salvador Dali Joke
By Jay Stone MARBELLA, Spain — This city at the eastern end of the Mediterranean is known as the “Miami Beach of the Costa del Sol.” I’m...
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David Sherman
Feb 24, 20205 min read
Please do not abandon the animals
By Jay Stone BENALMÁDENA, Spain — It takes about an hour to walk from the hotel in Torremolinos to the Parque de la Paloma here, in the...
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