Jim Smith
A photo journey to a Tuscan villa
This week we will visit the small hilltop town of Castelmuzio in the heart of Tuscany. You can be there in all its glory too, ...
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A bookstore with a canal entrance
Who would ever have imagined that you could enter a bookstore from a canal? As a former owner of a bookstore, I had to see ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, July 15, 2011 6:06 pm
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Jaywalking in front of speeding Italian buses
Jaywalking in front of speeding buses Italians drive the strangest autos. Never have I witnessed such a variety of design of vehicles than from our ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, July 8, 2011 5:25 pm
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Internet makes traveling simple
We saw the Pope. We sat there in front of St. Peter’s Basilica, described as the most impressive church on earth, among thousands of people ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, July 1, 2011 5:06 pm
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Of mules and how to talk to stepsons
One finds insights in the strange corners sometimes, a simple observation that makes a mountain of sense. The strange corner came from the magazine, Southern ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, June 24, 2011 7:24 pm
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Discovering ancient truisms
It’s fun to discover something from an archive written nearly 100 years ago, which could have historical implications today. No, we are not talking about ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, June 17, 2011 7:42 pm
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Joining the electronic library
At our house, this week, we purchased our second Kindle e-book reader. The first Kindle was a Christmas gift last year, bought from Amazon.com while ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, June 3, 2011 6:46 pm
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Holding on to grandma
The rhetoric about the current Medicare debate is that grandma is getting all the blame. The horror stories have returned, as both Democrats and Republicans ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, May 27, 2011 4:28 pm
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More playtime within our borders
So what’s the big attraction here with all those motel rooms out by U.S. 27 and the by-pass? It has been said that Bainbridge is ...
by Jim Smith, Friday, May 20, 2011 5:33 pm
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Musings from a great writer
In an old interview replayed on TV recently, noted Southern Civil War Author Shelby Foote was discussing his favorite writers. But his favorite of all ...