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Tuscany: Remixed

ON THE OTHER HAND In a recent blogpost, I was celebrating the joys of staying close to home, and enjoying the simple pleasures to be found in a small, rural island community, where: “There have been community meals, live performances by local and visiting musicians, a readers and writers festival with recitations and readings of both

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A Hurdy-Gurdy Tale

CONSOLATION PRIZE Long ago, when I was just a child, I desperately wanted to learn to play the piano. But because we didn’t have one, and couldn’t afford one, and somehow nobody in my family had the imagination to arrange for practice time in a church basement, I was offered a consolation prize. Accordion lessons

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