If you think that 2 days might is a very small amount of time to eat your way through New Orleans, you would be right. However, I assure you that if you keep to an hourly eating schedule, anything is possible. We got back in a few hours ago, and I’m not quite seeing straight…
ikea and apizza
There have been several trips to Ikea in the last few months. I’ll admit that I have had a passionate Italian sort of relationship with Ikea in the past, but I think I’m really done. It’s not that Ikea is a bad thing, as far as those big companies go. The whole Swedish thing…
clamp's
How any two people stay married is a mystery to me. My parents ditched the whole thing after just a few years, and I’ve got to say that I know more people who took that route than who kept at it. Because I am an optimist, and because it was Joey, I disregarded logic and…
charlie the butcher's
In so much as you might like to hear all sorts of idyllic stories about the first annual camping trip of my not always so idyllic family, I cannot please you. I can tell you this. There were smores. And we did stay dry within our tent.Even though there was plenty of rain outside of…
the french part of cape cod
A good 10 or so summers ago, I went on a little trip with my mother, my stepfather, and my sister who was maybe two at the time. It was, all in all, not the best of trips. We were voyaging to Canada to see my stepfather’s homeland, and there was a lot of car…
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