G.E. Forth

Homes and apartments here in the South all have pretty shutters on their windows, most of them painted in prescribed shades of blue or green.  When you cross over into nearby Italy this all changes dramatically, at least near the border.  I don’t really know why; maybe it is just to make the statement, ‘we are not French.’  I love …

Having received and then abandoned a Fitbit, I must admit to a little hesitation when I learned that my new phone could not only tell me how far I had walked today, but also could tell me how many flights of stairs I had climbed.  Like… how does it know that?  And, how does it deal with going downhill?  Since …