Today, the first trash-pickup day after Epiphany, is the day where the streets are lined with the dessicated corpses of Christmas trees. I keep trying to give this a German name, something something “die töten Tannenbäume,” but I can’t quite make it work.
Posted in personal | 5 Comments »>Happy New Year, everyone! We celebrated in style, a smallish party with good friends and a lot of laughter. Also party hats.
My year had a lot of changes in it (finishing the dissertation, finishing graduate school, one of those round-number birthdays, starting a new teaching job, publishing a book ), but the changes [...]
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Posted in personal | No Comments »>I noticed it too late to do it right, but I did finally notice a number of people marking the winter solstice by telling family stories on the webjournals. It’s a really charming idea, and an especially appropriate solstice celebration. That’s part of what I love about the confluence of winter holidays, [...]
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Posted in personal | 2 Comments »>I love the Fourth of July.
When I was a kid, we used to go to the big Fourth of July parade in a nearby town. “Big” is, of course, a very relative term; it wasn’t big like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade or anything. Just bigger than the other parades around, like [...]
Tags: boston, fourth of july, holidays
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