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Croissant update; August 4, 2024
This week I discovered a development in the ongoing croissant controversy. It involves Starbucks. There are larger problems in America, and the world, than coffee houses serving stale croissants. Nevertheless the issue keeps coming up, at least to me. A croissant should be flaky and crispy. To be this way it needs to have been…
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Toronto to Montreal, part two, June 24 – July 2, 2024
Most of New York State is referred to as “upstate” but I was farther north than that, a few miles south of the Canadian border, almost four hundred miles north of New York City and about eighty miles above of Syracuse NY. I was cycling alone on a country road, a road as narrow as…
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Toronto to Montreal; the first half, with Lyman, June 16-24, 2024
Canada is a parallel universe to America. It is just like America, until it is not. Could I document some differences? I flew north with bicycle to investigate. Toronto and Montreal are not that far away, each only about 850 miles from my home in Chapel Hill NC, about the same distance as New Orleans.…
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Jackson, Mississippi (with a Stick in my Hand); May 9-11, 2024
I had never been to Jackson, Mississippi but because of one song “Stick in my Hand” I have spent many years thinking about the place. It’s a great song but is very tongue-in-cheek and gives no details about Jackson at all. I have been married to Tootie for just over forty years. We met in…
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