Staytourism

A tourist in my home town Have you ever gone on vacation somewhere and said to yourself, “wow, if I lived here, I could go to [tourist spot] all the time”?  Speaking as someone who grew up in the Boston area, worked downtown for two years–Duck Tour buses used to go by our office window…

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If you knew sushi…

In which our intrepid blogger joins the 21st century So I had sushi last night for dinner. I know what you’re thinking; you’re thinking this is a post that I wrote in 2005 and it disappeared down a wormhole, only to surface now, years after it has lost all relevance. But no: I’ve been ducking…

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I frighten small children

Beware Uncle Gene I frighten small children. It’s not something I necessarily mean to do, more like an instinctive thing that I can’t appear to control. I came to this understanding over the weekend as sister Terri and bro-in-law Rob arrived in town (from Seattle or thereabouts) with two small children, Libby and Phoebe.  They are…

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