Archive for the ‘Boston’ Category
‘Just add the difference…’
A fellow parent at my children’s school was telling me about her landlord, an older Italian woman, when she lived in Boston’s North End about twenty years ago. “So she invited me in for lemonade one day and we had a nice chat. And then she said, ‘You know, I realize you’re just getting started [...]
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Yankee times
Now with 11 days remaining until I start the new job in NYC, I have started a list of “Things I will remember about New England”: 1. Practicing koine Greek vocabulary for class while sitting on Singing Beach in Manchester, with Carter as an infant in his car seat under a multi-colored umbrella. 2. Apple [...]
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My Life So Far (Part 1)
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Philip’s legacy
I don’t want a Porsche. Really, I don’t. I saw one crossing in front of me as I took a turn over the north Beverly railroad tracks – that cumbersome intersection of Dodge Row and Route 1-A North where, if you hit it wrong, you can sit for 4 ½ minutes (I’ve timed it) waiting [...]
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