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Washington DC earthquake repairs still underway

It was a year ago today that an earthquake rumbled across the Virginia countryside and sent tourists and others scurrying away from shaking buildings in Washington, D.C. Some buildings still are affected....

Shoe shopping in Toronto

If I didn’t have bunions I probably would have bought shoes during my recent visit to Toronto. While ambling down Queen Street West with two longtime Torontonian women pals, we stopped to...

One mushroom lover to another

Here’s an Associated Press story I just had to share: For $200 a person, the Four Seasons Resort Vail is sending out guided expeditions in luxury SUVs to look for mushrooms. The...

France terroir still there in wine tasting

I first tasted the Mourgues du Gres red wine right after a walk through the garrigue around the vineyards. To me it looked like weeds and I was glad I was wearing...

Failure of shortened links

I hate when shortened links using tiny url or bitly websites don’t work. There’s no figuring out why, at least in my admittedly limited grasp of things internet related. And there also...

Taste the south of France with me

World Wines in Mentor has managed to locate some of the wonderful wines I drank during my visit to the South of France this summer and will be pouring them from 6...

Fontfroide Abbaye- dine where monks prayed

In the foothills of the Corbières mountains of the Aude department in the South of France is the Abbaye Fontfroide, which was founded by Benedictine monks in 1093 but is now restored...

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