Aimee and I enjoyed the company of Amy and Dave at their new place in Huron Village, just outside of Harvard Square, for pizza and wine tonight. We had a delicious potato pie from Real Pizza and a classic mushroom pie from Armando’s, both within walking distance of their beautiful, huge, spacious, roomy apartment. Well, […]

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We hit Oleanna for the first time tonight, and sampled their yummy deviled egg Pret a Manger selection, plus some excellent Portuguese wine and a main course that had been “schnitzeled.” Whatever it was, it was good. It’s still chilly out there; we have no snow, but it’s apparently two degrees out, while in Alaska, […]

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In light of the pontiff’s pithy remarks on Mel Gibson’s new film, I think I’d like to see other reviewers leave behind the “star” rating system, the letter grade system, and especially the hated “thumb” system for the “five words or fewer” system employed by the Vatican.And is it me, or are there one too […]

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I think the first thing on anyone’s list would be to make sure there isn’t a website set up detailing how horrible the hotel is as a result of the fact that hotel employees have been on strike for the last six months. That would be a good thing to check up on. Not thinking, […]

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So it’s officially been two months since I “decided” to run the Chicago Marathon next Columbus Day Weekend, October 10th. Since October, I’ve put in ten or so miles a week, which I should increase sometime soon. I also need to see Josh about those shinsplints/runner’s knee exercises with the inscrutable instructional diagrams.Next up is […]

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So we didn’t end up going to Quebec, after all. Since October, I had planned a double-switch surprise for Aimee, which worked out brilliantly, if I do say so myself. I told her the day I got back from Colorado that we’d be driving to Quebec the next day, and I showed her a printout […]

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