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Father’s Day Gift

June 12, 2025 – 1:31 am

My father came around the world to see me and Angie in Thailand. Most of the time he had no idea where he was. It was the start of his decline. Frank A Smith II passed in 2010, but my father will always be in the here-now with the love I carry for him into […]

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My Boy Fenway

May 26, 2025 – 9:42 am

I named my son Fenway. Red Sox Nation. Fenway Park where baseball is still baseball and not a distraction for the shopping mall under the seats No blaring ads, no hoopla, no fake audience noise. Baseball. My first game there was in 1962. Sox versus the Kansas City Athletics. With my brother and my father. […]

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7/11 Everywhere

May 16, 2025 – 2:21 pm

I remember life without 7/11. Most of the last century. 1927. The company was found in Irving Texas as Southland Grocery Store providing the widespread citizens of that slave state with a convenient place to buy milk, eggs, and other sundries. The name changed to 7/11 to promote the 7am-11pm hours. Not the old dice […]

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May Day Thailand

May 1, 2025 – 8:33 am

Thailand has an amazing galaxy on public holidays, mostly religious or honoring the royal family history. Many farangs are befuddled by this unexplained cosmos, especially since the nation celebrates three different New Year’s Days. Western, Chinese, and Thai. Today is a bank holiday in Thailand, but few Thais or westerners know the origin of this […]

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THE POLITESSE OF PALM BEACH COPS by Peter Nolan Smith

April 15, 2025 – 1:16 pm

Back in the summer of 2008 I was taking care of a Palm Beach mansion. It was deep off-season and hurricane season was coming on fast. One evening I went over to my friend’s house close to the center on town. After dinner Lisa killed me at scrabble. She scored 33 points for xi, which […]

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