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on January 11, 2018 at 11:14 am ×
That first night was pretty special. The Mrs. and the teen thought we were starting our time in New York City at a hockey game in Brooklyn. I sold it so very well. It was a Tony Award worthy performance. Come From Away is set in Newfoundland and, as you […]
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on December 6, 2017 at 9:54 am ×
This was, to put it both bluntly and succinctly, designed specifically to right a wrong. That the Meelick House, an elegantly rustic stone coach rental home set on a rural patch of electric green in County Clare, came to represent such…let’s call it a kind of cognitive dissonance in our lives, […]
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on August 24, 2017 at 8:26 am ×
Our Last Road Trip This one was an expensive, drawn-out lesson. It took our two-week, one-way summertime drive from the Carnival Cruise port of Seattle to the driveway of our suburban Philly home to realize what we probably already knew, deep down, but didn’t want to admit. At least the […]
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on August 3, 2017 at 10:52 am ×
We were never supposed to be there. We were never supposed to see Yellowstone’s perfect waterfall rainbow, and by all rights we shouldn’t have had the privilege since we had no idea such a thing existed. Sometimes you need lady luck to shine down upon you when traveling. Had the […]
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on July 27, 2017 at 7:34 pm ×
There’s a lot of hyperbole on the internet. It’s the very thing driving millions of clicks to websites falsely promising “THE REAL CURE FOR AGING!!” and claiming to answer idiotic hot take questions like, “IS LEBRON THE BEST NBA PLAYER EVER OR A TOTAL FRAUD???” This blog has made its […]
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on July 17, 2017 at 8:00 am ×
I didn’t have my first taste of BBQ until my late 20s. Throughout the next decade there would be occasions where I would offer up this curious nugget from my culinary back story to various people in mixed company. There was always a natural lead-in, I’m not that random (although […]
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on June 16, 2017 at 4:04 am ×
It’s 3:26 A.M. and I’m awake. This is my new normal. There’s a shooting pain coursing down my right leg thanks to a shifted disc getting too cozy with a nerve, like a drunk guy leaning on the shoulder of a young lady at a bar. He reeks of strong […]
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on May 25, 2017 at 9:20 am ×
We were beat tired. Tired like the punchlines from her kid sister’s joke book. The two of us, dad and daughter. We’d completely run out of steam. After a long night and early morning of driving… After 75 minutes of hurling ourselves around a frozen curling court… After hours spent […]