Time Travel

My favorite pair of shoes ever was this bright red strappy pair of camper sandals that lasted me 3 summers of near-daily wear. I bought them while on vacation in a seaside european town back when the dollar to the euro exchange rate was not as ugly. I am back at this seaside town this [...]

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The Arbitrage of Place and Time

This time one year ago, a June weekend might have looked like this:  I probably woke up late on a Saturday, grabbed a New Yorker or a Gourmet magazine, and whiled the morning away over a huge coffee and a spinach, egg and cheese muffin at the bakery down the street.  Then I wandered into [...]

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These are the days you will remember

  These are days you’ll remember Never before and never since, I promise Will the whole world be warm as this And as you feel it, You’ll know it’s true That you are blessed and lucky It’s true that you Are touched by something That will grow and bloom in you These are days that [...]

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Late Bloomers

- So I finally learned how to blow dry my hair properly.  I actually googled “how to blow dry hair.”  You know there’s a ton of stuff on youtube?  You’re supposed to do it from the top down with one of those round brushes.  If you blow dry it up, it gets frizzy. – Huh. [...]

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