Indigestion (re-post)

26Dec08

[Post originally appeared in November, now digitally remastered since some readers missed it after I took it off to edit.]
 
 
When my wife Karen and I would go to Jumbalaya, a Peabody, Massachusetts restaurant that promised a combination of Tex-Mex and Creole food, she always seemed to be smirking.  I should have taken this as an [...]

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Yankee times

06Sep07

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 picking with [...]

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My Life So Far (Part 1)

12Aug07

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Even better the second day

28Apr07

I termed it “clothes spam” when I came back downstairs and saw Karen. Not spam as in that junk email we all get, but rather a representation of the canned and oft-avoided foodstuff from which the term is derived.

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Priced to move

02May06

Yard sales can be lots of fun, but you shouldn’t put a fundraiser in charge of pricing. More to the point, you shouldn’t put someone who enjoys giving away money (as I do) in charge of determining how much money comes in from the aggressive sale of everything from ladies’ skirts to old vegetable steamers [...]

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