A few weeks ago, I went to London for the first time in 10 years. It was a long-overdue homecoming. Long story short, I lived there for six months after college and fell in love with it. My mom did as well, and we visited five or six times over a span of about 17... Continue Reading →
It was not my first time in Vegas. I had been to Vegas about 24 years ago for about a total of 24 hours. I was visiting a friend who was doing an internship in Los Angeles, and we hopped on a one-hour flight to Vegas. We were too cheap to get a hotel room,... Continue Reading →
I had never heard of Jim Irsay before. But when I received a promotional email about his upcoming tour stop in Boston, which consisted of a free concert and a viewing of his memorabilia collection, I read that a member of my favorite [broken-up] band, R.E.M., would be playing in the concert. So I immediately... Continue Reading →
I had heard about a recurring jazz concert series in my neighborhood before COVID hit. I didn't know much about it, except that it was free (donations encouraged) and it was held in the basement of the local VFW hall. Then COVID happened, and I didn't give it another thought for years. A month or... Continue Reading →
I recently decided that I needed to buy a Tibetan singing bowl. How did I come to that decision? Memory fails me. What I do know is that I'm always looking for ways to live in the present moment more often, quiet my monkey mind, and de-stress. So one day, I crossed a mysterious path... Continue Reading →
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