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A WALK IN FOG by Peter Nolan Smith

November 12, 2023 – 4:02 am

On a murky November evening I attended the opening of the “Dream’ exhibition at Luxembourg’s Mudam Museum. Madame l’Ambassador bailed early for a formal affair. I was not invited for the dinner. “It’s a diplomatic thingee.” Madame l’Ambassador explained, as we walked through a thickening fog to the waiting Jaguar. “I understand.” A writer-in-residence has […]

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Darryl Hannah Postcard – Never Send – March 1984

February 9, 2022 – 4:54 pm

In January 1984 I accompanied a fashion photographer to Jamaica to shot a new blonde Star, Darryl Hannah. She was good people. After the trip I returned to Europa and traveled across the Alpes with a Italian cartoonist. We spent a night in Milano. I sent a letter and not this postcard from Roma. Maybe […]

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Belgium Beer Research

January 29, 2021 – 12:33 pm

My first beer was a Miller in 1965. I drank it behind Our Aunt of Jesus Catholic Church. Two more followed fast. The contents of the three bottles disagreed with my stomach and I spewed out the beer like a whale breaching the surface of the ocean. On the following Sunday the pastor, who looked […]

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Charleroi, A Thing Of Beauty

January 29, 2021 – 12:29 am

For the centuries Luxembourg served as a barrier against the invading armies of Northern Europe. The city was surrounded by the thickly forested Ardennes and massive fortifications topped sheer cliffs, allowing hundreds of troops foil the attack of thousands. Militarists called the citadel the Gibraltar of the North and in the autumn of 2011 I […]

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The Comfort Of A Siesta

September 5, 2020 – 5:44 pm

Last week I worked every day 8 to 5 at my cousin’s metal shop. I cut bronze with a band saw, picked up steel from a Newtown Creek foundry, installed bathroom fixtures at a West 14th Street luxury condo, and delivered decorative storage bins to the patio of a 5th Avenue penthouse. The work was […]

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