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WORLD CUP WONDERS
Hello fans and non-fans and all neutral parties! We are down to the final two matches, but World Cup Fever continues to heat up. While I have not — confession —actually watched a whole entire WC match on TV, I've watched many random minutes and have — especially — paid close attention to the ancillary side stories, which are probably some of the best World Cup stories. There are so many! I’ve been bookmarking and texting myself FIFA-land snippets and scraps for several we
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FIELD TRIP: BOSTON, QUICKLY
“In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?” —Mark Twain "That's all I claim for Boston—that it is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet." —Oliver Wendell Holmes "We say the cows laid out Boston. Well, there are worse surveyors." —Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the best things about a trip to a new country, new city, or even a new part of town is that your local knowledge can gro
Jun 2811 min read
AIR TRAVEL, SOMETIMES: PART 2 (PEOPLE + STORIES)
Hello (last Tuesday) from the Capital One lounge at DFW. I look toward the wide expanse of windows to check for the impending thunderstorm, and my neighboring lounger, who is typing away next to me, looks up and says, “It’s for a training exercise.” My eye then catches the billowing black smoke, and I remember another Tuesday morning in this exact spot: for training purposes, a mocked-up plane at the southwest end of DFW is regularly set on fire, and then emergency teams wo
May 3111 min read
