Dear Barbara: You and your roommates would go out of your head as Rhodes is bursting with sailors. I could have a million (at least). We met Harry and Shorty two sailors and on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Roosevelt we received a private tour and saw a side of the ship the regular visiting publicContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 28June1971: Panormitis, Symi, Greece: Staying with The Pilgrims in a Monastery: Father Gabriel’s Miracle”
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“Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: : Reggie and Bob Receive Nobel Prize for Literature! Dillie Makes Scotland Proud! Why all These Calls From Nicole Kidman? Our Invite to Camp David: Chapter Thirty Nine (39)
Bob is on fire with his novel “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog”. It is on the number one position for novels on the New York Times Best Seller list for 32 weeks in a row. Additionally he has signed a huge deal with Big House Publishers to convert his internet published novels “Life at Megacorp”,Continue reading ““Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: : Reggie and Bob Receive Nobel Prize for Literature! Dillie Makes Scotland Proud! Why all These Calls From Nicole Kidman? Our Invite to Camp David: Chapter Thirty Nine (39)”
“Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” :The Final Cut: The Making of Disney’s “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Terrifying Stink of Cairo: This Will Not Be a “Lady and the Tramp Story!: Chapter Thirty One (31)
The contracts with Disney have been signed. Bob as co-producer and screenplay writer is in Los Angeles Monday-Friday at Disney Studios working on the Disney animated film “Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” production. Dillie the Westie and I miss him and the walks he took us on in the neighborhood. Fay is more likely toContinue reading ““Reggie The Egyptian Rescue Dog” :The Final Cut: The Making of Disney’s “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog”: The Terrifying Stink of Cairo: This Will Not Be a “Lady and the Tramp Story!: Chapter Thirty One (31)”
: Travels of My Mother: 23July1971: St. Nicholas, Crete, Greece: Surly and Grasping Cretans
Dear Mother: I am sitting in an open-air café trying goat’s milk for the first and last time. It must be 90 degrees but there is a lovely breeze blowing. We arrived on the island of Crete at 3:30 p.m. yesterday after 7 hours on deck on a very rough ocean. Both Robert and IContinue reading “: Travels of My Mother: 23July1971: St. Nicholas, Crete, Greece: Surly and Grasping Cretans”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 13August1970: West Berlin, Germany: In Berlin Shocked By The Wall
We arrived in Munich after a “delightful” trip on a Yugoslav train. It originated in Athens and it was full of TURKS and GREEKS. The filth was incredible. No food or drinks and the toilets were beyond description. We left at 4:30 a.m. and arrived at 2:30 p.m. to a beautiful hotel dirty and tired.Continue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 13August1970: West Berlin, Germany: In Berlin Shocked By The Wall”
Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Reggie Has a Screen Test with ABC and Bob Meets with Big House Publishers: We Meet Famous Television Types Kelly and Mark: Chapter Twenty Five (25)
Bob, Fay and I travel to New York City to meet with ABC studio executives and Bob will check in with Big House Publishers about publishing his “Reggie” book. ABC has sent us first class tickets and I sit in a seat between Fay and Bob instead of under the seat as Bob is usingContinue reading “Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog: The Final Cut: Reggie Has a Screen Test with ABC and Bob Meets with Big House Publishers: We Meet Famous Television Types Kelly and Mark: Chapter Twenty Five (25)”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 23July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: He Fell Like a Ton of Bricks
Dear Louise, George, Diane and Gerald: This is a far cry from Spain in every way but everyone goes to Spain so I have to be different. We have been away for such a long time and every once and awhile I long to be back with Andy and all of you. I have hadContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 23July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: He Fell Like a Ton of Bricks”
Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 16July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: The Man Who Had Not Had a Bath in Five Years!
Dear Barb and Andrew: As you can see we are on Pag. We had left the beautiful Hvar then to the island of Muter which was packed with German tourists. A tiny place with no hotels. People are packed in like sardines. We stayed two days and three nights there. We met a man fromContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 16July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: The Man Who Had Not Had a Bath in Five Years!”
RKS 2024 Wine: Moderately Priced Bordeaux’s Surge and Portuguese Imports Disappear
Although we try yet another moderately priced Bordeaux I can’t stop contemplating where Portugal has gone. Is there some new strain of COVID or natural disaster (not a political corruption one) that has strangled the outflow of Portuguese exports of wine to Ontario? Has some strange variety of fungus attacked Portuguese vineyards? Has TAP PortugalContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Moderately Priced Bordeaux’s Surge and Portuguese Imports Disappear”
RKS 2024 Wine: Stunning Shiraz From Kangaroo Island
Just when I was thinking Australia was becoming a bit tiresome with the same wines from the same appellations my ears perked up and my eyes bulged, just a bit, when I saw a Springs Road Shiraz from Battle of Bosworth Wines on Kangaroo Island. I did a quick dig on Kangaroo Island finding outContinue reading “RKS 2024 Wine: Stunning Shiraz From Kangaroo Island”
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