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Holidays, in a Nutshell

I had this big, long essay planned about the holidays, but I’m tired, and everyone does big long essays about the holidays, anyway. I have often wondered how many new hits a search for the phrase “my crazy family” yields in the days immediately following Thanksgiving and Christmas. Anyway: 1. Christmas Eve, we went to the “contemporary” [...]
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Food for Thought

Just after we started dessert, it occurred to me that if I were a real blogger, I would have been taking pictures of the meal to post here. Dinner at Horizons in Philly isn’t quite like dinner anywhere else. Many of the patrons aren’t vegetarian, much less vegan, so the fact that this vegan restaurant [...]
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What I Learned On My Summer Vacation

1. A bathing suit and shoes looks ridiculous, no matter your age or physical condition. Flip-flops are passable, but just barely. 2. That leafy stuff leafing all over everything near the highways (and everything else) in North Carolina is kudzu. Also, it is nice to have a friend who knows what I’m talking about when I [...]
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Dispatch from HHI

After the frenzy getting out the door, and after driving through the state of Virginia at no more than thirty miles per hour, we arrived in Chapel Hill in time for dinner with my favorite pregnant former co-worker. The evening began with her handing me her copy of the first Harry Potter book, and ended [...]
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