Fall? More figurative than literal.

Living in a tropical (no, literally) climate, seeing the passage of time is different than it is in places where you can see the seasons change. It’s hard to remind myself that time is indeed going by when I can still wear all of my summer clothes and go to the beach on the weekend. … Continue reading

Sparkly Nights

These first few weeks of November are always strange. The weather is always doing odd things. The leaves have pretty much all fallen from the trees, leaving a color fanatic like myself rather unimpressed with the dreary brown-ness of the Mid-Atlantic region. It’s too far from the winter holidays to inspire a countdown, but it’s … Continue reading

Boston

So here I am, sitting in ‘the Quad’ at Cambridge, having breakfasted c/o Harvard’s dining services, and this morning while eating my waffle and coffee, I realized that I hadn’t been in a cafeteria in nearly a year. Hell yeah. Isn’t it funny to anyone else that I have to travel several hundred miles to … Continue reading