Where does one draw that line? The easiest way to meet people is to talk to them (I know, there’s a Nobel Prize in my future), and it is a lot more accepted in the South than it would be back in New Jersey (thank goodness!), but I still feel myself wondering when I’m being [...]
Also tagged arkansas, history, lecture, pennsylvania, philadelphia, photographsHappy 2010! This is the third decade I get to see—not the whole thing, mind you, but a new trio of numbers at the beginning of the year to write on papers and correspondence—and I’m very excited to see what it will hold. This is the decade, nay, year when I break free of the [...]
Also tagged bike tour, Germany, munich, reflectionSo it turns out that Germantown is thusly named because the first settlers were German. I know, you’re shocked. But look, YOU DON’T EXPECT LOS ANGELES TO BE FULL OF ANGLES NOW DO YOU?? Yeah, that’s what I thought. Never mind that the Pennsylvania Dutch are actually Pennsylvania Deutch and other obviously Germanic roots, like [...]
Also tagged history, philadelphiaFirst official solo trip in Philly is to the Chestnut Hill Book Festival. Hey, it’s a 10 minute drive and I like history. I mean, I went to a documentary about the Croatian revolution? Somewhere in the Balkans, it was a couple years ago and I was the YOUNGEST PERSON IN THE ROOM and the [...]
Also tagged philadelphiaMy sister’s leaving tonight, in an hour and a half, to spend seven weeks in Taiwan. I did something similar three years ago but I only stayed for four weeks: the duration of the volunteer teaching program. She is extending it and making a vacation of it, spending time with family and seeing the south [...]
Also tagged mea culpa, philadelphia, reflection