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A Visit To Charleston
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A Visit To Charleston

By Carleton Varney

In these days of the coronavirus pandemic, heading out on the open roads can offer welcome relief from the every day. Driving Interstate 95 north from Palm Beach engenders a sort of visual solace, I find,...
Obsolete? Not Necessarily
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Obsolete? Not Necessarily

By Carleton Varney

I’m not ashamed to say it: I grew up in the days of the typewriter. Yes, I’m talking about that heavy machine with little black letters and numbers on white keys — or vice versa...
Checkerboard motif a winner at Green's
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Checkerboard motif a winner at Green's

By Carleton Varney

If you haven’t been to the Green’s Pharmacy Luncheonette lately, you’ll find that the Palm Beach breakfast and lunch hangout has a new look that’s being admired by the faithful.
Coloring Books, Dollhouses Nurture Creativity
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Coloring Books, Dollhouses Nurture Creativity

By Carleton Varney

Lately, believe it or not, I have been busy creating coloring books. In fact, I have just completed a new one called ''Color the Greenbrier Beautiful.'' It is filled with 27 pages of original illustrations to...
Wake Up a Room With a Top-Off of Coffee Color
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Wake Up a Room With a Top-Off of Coffee Color

By Carleton Varney

These days, it seems, every street corner has a coffee place, whether it’s a Dunkin’, a Starbucks or some other brand. And so it is in the terminals of airports, where coffee seems to be...
Fanciful Inspiration Flows From the Phlox
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Fanciful Inspiration Flows From the Phlox

By Carleton Varney

My sister, Vivian, who lives outside of Seattle in a small country town, recently sent me a text with a photograph of the phlox flowers in her garden. The pink, white, magenta and violet colors...
Give Your Rooms a Light and Breezy Touch of Summer
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Give Your Rooms a Light and Breezy Touch of Summer

By Carleton Varney

It’s nearing the end of July, and mid-summer days have delivered plenty of Florida sunshine and lots of high temperatures. When summer came to Massachusetts, my grandmother always addressed the days with many changes in...
The Women of Antique Row Will Welcome You Back
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The Women of Antique Row Will Welcome You Back

By Carleton Varney

Here’s to the women of South Dixie Highway who have a passion for the vintage and the antique. Their businesses on and near West Palm Beach’s Antique Row have reopened, and they are happy to...
Try a Color Scheme as American as Red, White and Blue
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Try a Color Scheme as American as Red, White and Blue

By Carleton Varney

Saturday is the Fourth of July, when we’ll celebrate the red, white and blue, even if this year we’re doing it a little differently because of the continuing health crisis. So it is with much...