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On a barge in France

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Category Archives: French food

Easing into France

May 12, 2018

Sure. Right. Everybody’s so depressed because the world is coming to an end. Iran. North Korea. Stormy. Blah. Blah. Blah. …

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This year’s demi-tour (U-turn)

June 5, 2016

We are so fortunate this year. What with the weeks of torrential rains we’ve saved an absolute fortune on sunscreen. …

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Cruising into controversy

May 24, 2016

The world is topsy turvy. Migrants fleeing war, famine and poverty are pushing Europe to reexamine its generosity. And morality. …

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Three fantastic reasons why you should never, ever brag about how the engine has never, ever failed.

June 10, 2015

Back in my newspaper reporter days one of the fundamental axioms of journalism was that things – fires, school bus …

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Slow food. Fast food. French food. We’re back.

May 29, 2015

An entire winter is a long time to hold your breath. Especially this past arctic winter in New England. Walking …

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We fought the law and we won. Sort of.

July 27, 2014

This has been the summer of being flexible, of rolling with the punches. And of things, as they seem to …

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Going where no barge can go … by car

July 5, 2014

With some trepidation I surreptitiously checked out the guy standing on my right in the cable car taking us up …

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On the bachelor barge

April 26, 2014

They say the mind retains no specific memory of pain, specific in the sense that on your deathbed you will …

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On a Barge in France – The Book

Our book about barging in France, based on this blog but with lots of additional material, is available from Amazon.

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Never Again

The political climate in the United States is ready for a novel about how the Holocaust could happen in America. I just happened to have written such a book.

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Ben’s novel –

Our son Ben also wrote a novel. One reviewer wrote, “Who knew that a novel about the return of a native for his mother’s funeral, a job as a special ed teacher, and unfinished business over a long ago drowning would be so damned funny? And bring wonder and discovery along with it.”

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Marshview Boatworks

During the winter I build small rowing, sailing and paddling boats at a boat shed next to our house in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Click here for the boatbuilding web site.

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