Lisboa – Scene Three – Will I still feel Passion?

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My arrival in Lisboa in December 2023 is my third visit here (and to Portugal) since May 2022. Since you can read about those trips here and here, I’ll mainly limit my reporting in this journal to new experiences and …

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Putting it Together

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Jet Song. Uncomplicated airline travel in the twenty-first century is the exception rather than the norm. However, other than the three or four schedule changes Delta made between my initial reservation and my departure, this trip provided one of those …

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Out of a Little Dream. Bom dia Lisboa. Voltei (de novo!)

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Those who have read the posts recounting my two previous trips to Lisboa are probably aware that I am at least mildly infatuated with Portugal’s capital city. Many who know me are also aware that for more than a decade …

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All is revealed

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The contest challenge for this series of posts has been to identify one musician and the song references contained in each entry. Although identifying some of the songs might have been a bit tricky and difficult – particularly since the …

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I Call it Pretty Music – part 4

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Before we go. Although he was only there for a brief time, Berry Gordy put his experience working at Ford to good use in building Motown. In his autobiography To Be Loved, Gordy wrote, “At the plant, the cars started …

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