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Welcome
Thanks for stopping by to read The Salted Tomato Diaries. Named for one of my favorite food combinations, this blog will talk about things I love: travel, food, writing, photography, the entire country...
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I’m Flying!
Have you read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? It’s one of a few very funny books by Douglas Adams. I was thinking of a scene in it where the alien Zaphod Beeblebrox teaches the human Arthur Dent...
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Listening to Chinese Men Singing Christmas Carols
Nighttime view of the Grand Canal from a vaporetto. Riding the vaporetto the other day, I heard a heavily accented voice singing Jingle Bells: jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. I turned...
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Happy Birthday to Me!
The whirlpool at the Hotel ai Reali spa. Yesterday was my birthday and it was a fantastic day. Buon compleanno a me! I’m definitely one of those people who believes birthdays should last more than one...
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Running for the elephants
Every year we meet up with family and friends to run in the Bronx Zoo Run for the Wild. This is a super-cool race through the zoo before it opens to the public. The first year, we never even made it to...
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Thinking of summer . . .
We’ve been walloped by snow here in the Northeast. I like to think I come from sturdy stock: born in upstate New York surrounded by mounds of snow, raised in New England, no stranger to shoveling. But...
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September 11th and after
Here’s what I remember after the Sept 11th attacks: a friend calling to see if I was watching the news. Switching it on to hear that a plane had crashed into one of the Twin Towers. Initially thinking...
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I’m Flying!
Have you read The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? It’s one of a few very funny books by Douglas Adams. I was thinking of a scene in it where the alien Zaphod Beeblebrox teaches the human Arthur Dent...
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