Just Beachy!

This was our small but adequate Boston accommodations. Fantastic location, decent space (unless you actually wanted to dry off in the bathroom, but that’s another story). But then we arrived at our home for the week on Cape Cod. Oh. My. You can see the beach from our window and the deck outside it. You [...]

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Just Wondering…

What is up with the little door to the right? We saw these all over Boston. Is there a large population of little people in Boston or something? Seriously, I walked past several of these and they didn’t come up to my shoulders (I’m 5’5″ so not I’m an Amazon or anything). At least one [...]

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Remember

Just over from Faneuil Hall, right off the Freedom Trail, is this: Tall glass columns with steam rising up inside them. Do they remind you of anything? Smokestacks, maybe? From gas chambers? It’s a Holocaust memorial. You walk through it. Etched on the glass are stories from survivors. Short, heartwrenching stories like the barber who [...]

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Beefcake for Lunch

After our healthy (ha!) breakfast our intrepid band set off to tackle the subway system. Which, eventually, we did. (Subway pics are boring, you don’t want to see those, do you? Good, because we didn’t take any.) Our first destination was Walgreen’s, because somebody (not the author of this post) forgot to pack their prescriptions. [...]

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