Last weekend I checked off two birthday list items: visiting an art exhibit with live animals and visiting a local waterworks museum. I read about the Peabody Essex Museum's exhibit From Here to Ear in the newspaper. The Peabody Essex is a great art museum in Salem. I hadn't been in a few years,... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. As a Bostonian, I felt a pang of guilt because I didn't realize that yesterday was the anniversary. The date of last year's marathon hadn't been seared in my brain, as it had been for tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people. On that date... Continue Reading →
One of the many reasons I wish I lived in London is that Londoners still read printed books and newspapers. These are MY PEOPLE. London has at least eight major newspapers. So many people read newspapers and leave them on the Tube that the Mayor of London's office posted this ad on the Tube:... Continue Reading →
So, London. My mom and I had decided that it was high time that my brother, Justin, join us on one of our England adventures. The past few times she and I had been to England, we'd spent two days in London max and the rest of the time in the Lake District or... Continue Reading →
I recently read a NY Times article titled "Lessons from Living in London." It was written by a former foreign correspondent for the Times who'd lived in London for almost 20 years. As I read, I found myself gasping in bewilderment and asking my computer: "Did we live in the same place?" This writer had... Continue Reading →
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