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May 2025

Surrendering to Provence
It was a stone house that was big and old with many rooms and walls as thick as a fortress.
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The man who gave me Japan
He was a short, nervous, tightly-wound man. He always wore a coat and tie, most usually a bow tie—his dress was fastidious—which made him look like an…
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Finding grace in airports
When you travel by plane, you spend time, of course, in airports.
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Rainy days in Paris
Paris in the rain is glorious, especially if the rain isn’t hard and unrelenting.
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California
We went to California for a long weekend, visiting my cousin Beverly.
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April 2025

A tale of two turtles
A few years ago, we had a water oak in our yard cut down.
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Easter, 1955
It was a small church in the country, about five miles from where we lived in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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Birds in the Louisiana woods
It’s hard to find someone who is half-hearted about birds and birding.
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A trip to another world
Saturday, I went to a remote part of south Louisiana, about an hour and a half from where I live, to the White Lake Conservation Area.
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