Wow – where does the time go? How did it get to be July?! Hope everyone is doing well!
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Monday Special: Invitation to a Love Story
Today we interrupt the usual Monday Mystery segment to focus on a special love story. Specifically, the love story of Elizabeth Barrett (EBB) and Robert Browning (RB). Continue reading
Italian Lucky Charm
Just in time for New Year’s Eve, I’m sharing a post I wrote back in 2010. It explains an Italian traditional good luck charm you need to get to make sure you’ll have good luck next year. Click here to read the post – and then get shopping! You’ll need to do some shopping for others before New Year’s Eve, and you’ll also need to find someone to do the same kind of shopping for you.
Good luck – and hope we all have the luck of the Italian tradition with us for 2017!
Buon Natale e Tanti Auguri from Verona
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Verona!
To celebrate, here are a couple of images for the season from Chris’s new “ND Series” of artworks. Enjoy! Continue reading
Travel Tuesdays: Where were they when?
Today on Travel Tuesdays I want to take you back to June 20, 2015. Continue reading
Monday Mystery: 3Ps and a Podcast – Take 2
Today on Monday Mysteries we answer a question some of you have asked in emails, etc.: whatever happened to the podcast idea I talked about months ago in a post entitled 3Ps in a Podcast? Continue reading
Travel Tuesdays: iCurves in Santa Barbara
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Today on Travel Tuesdays we take a quick look at a phenomenon I’ve invented here in Santa Barbara with my new cellphone camera: an iCurve. Let me explain.
Food on Fridays Special Alert: NDD 2016!
A special announcement: Today, Friday June 3 is National Doughnut Day 2016 in the U.S. Here’s a fun article about the history of it, as well as some places giving away doughnuts in celebration of the day! Continue reading
Food on Fridays: Start to Finish
I know, I know. Today is Wednesday. But the post today is all about Food on Friday – last Friday, May 20th, to be exact. So I thought I’d share it before this coming Friday rolls around. 
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A Ghost from the Past
It’s only recently come to my attention that controversy has surrounded Germany’s entry into Eurovision 2016. This is the kind of thing that I would normally have kept you up-to-date on well-before this. My apologies for the oversight. Continue reading