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One of the casualties of our evolving lives is that new things often take time from old things. Between traveling in our RV and other events, this year my…
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One blessing of living in Northwest Florida is that while we enjoy the change of seasons, we don’t suffer from real winter weather. Watching Midwesterners…
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For years in my Pensacola News Journal column, and here on WUWF, I’ve chronicled my efforts to clean up roadside litter. One unvarying factor was that no…
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Travelers find value in different ways. It can come in seeing famous places you have always heard about, or just immersing yourself in another culture —…
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Several years ago I reviewed here a new book, “The Gulf, the Making of an American Sea,” by University of Florida professor Jack Davis. It provided a long…
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We human beings are suckers for new things, which is why there is a cottage industry devoted to putting the word “new” on old products, usually in bright…
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I’ve talked before about the value of reading obituaries, still very much the province of newspapers, either in print or online. As John Maynard Keynes…
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Many years ago I became an avid reader of food labels. Cans, boxes, bags, packaged meats, even deli foods … and it opened my eyes to what was being sold…
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We recently traveled to Canada, about 60 miles north of Toronto. We stayed in a resort that offers skiing and snowmobiling in the winter, golf, hiking and…
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People of a certain age will identify with this sad story. The rest of you, well, you will understand it soon enough. And while I say it’s sad, the good…