Author: Jim Santos
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COVID-19 and Travel
Rita and I just returned from our trip to San Francisco, and we had a wonderful time. I wrote one article while we were still there, and I promise there are more to come. Today however, I want to take a moment to write something about the infectious elephant in the room, Covid-19. As I’ve mentioned…
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The Simple Joys of Travel
For the past week we have been in San Francisco, California, enjoying the first real travel event since our trip to the Galápagos back in August of 2019. Sure, we took some driving trips here and there, but this was the first trip that involved air travel and was dedicated to just exploring someplace new. I’ll…
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Hoping to Travel Again
I have what’s called a Smart Folder setup in iPhoto that sorts photos by month from the previous thirteen years. The photos for whatever month we are currently in then displays as the screen saver on our living room TV. I know that makes me kind of geeky, but really it’s a nice trip down…
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Hate and Anger on Facebook
Phone the neighbors, wake the kids, it’s time for another Facebook Rant! Actually, this time it is more of a screed about Facebook users, and the larger issue of the increase in hate, anger, and general incivility over the past four or five years. I’ve always said, if you have nothing nice to say, say…
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Delta and the Delta Variant
There’s no doubt that the biggest adjustment we have made to our lives in these Days of Wine and Covid has been cutting out air travel. We’ve been together now over 12 years, and in the first ten of those years we must have been on more than 80 different flights to various destinations. In…
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Interview on WOKI Talk Radio 98.7FM
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with Jim Brogan of the More Living with Jim Brogan show on Knoxville’s WOKI Talk Radio 98.7FM. The pre-recorded interview will be broadcast on WOKI this Saturday, June 12th at 9am and 3pm. It will also be available a few days later on the Brogan Financial…
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Book Interview Now Online
A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Bright Side Global Trade about the release of my latest book, Living Abroad – Challenging the Myths of Expat Life. It was just released on their website as well as on Youtube. For your viewing enjoyment (or amusement, as the case may be) here is the Zoom…
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Taking a Vaccication
As you may know, Rita and I came back from six years in Ecuador with the plan of setting up a home base in eastern Tennessee, and then starting out on a roving retirement lifestyle. We had planned to spend two to three months in a different country, then try out another, and so on…
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Do the Write Thing
“In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.”― Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was truly a man ahead of his time. Never in history has it been easier to get a book published, and never has it been…
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I Shall Believe
It has only been four days since I said no political posts for a while, and although this touches tangentially on politics, it is not really a political post. What’s on my mind today is something I think is at the root of most of the rancor and division in America. Too many Americans have…