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Minivan Chronicles: City Animals
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Saturday, July 30, 2011. 8220;There was a great hurry in the streets, of people speeding away to get shelter before the storm broke; the wonderful corner for echoes resounded with the echoes of footsteps coming and going, yet not a footstep was there. ‘A multitude of people, and yet a solitude! 8217; said Darney, when they had listened for a while.”. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 8220;Why’s that? The blur ...
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Minivan Chronicles: Tube Story (Intermission)
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Friday, August 26, 2011. Something was not quite right. Did the uncle/father's wife know the truth of the relationship between the boy and the uncle/father? Did she know the dead mother back in Afghanistan? The immigration agent bent over her papers to scrawl something in the block of white space across the bottom of the last page of neat legal type. As the automated Tube voice announced King's Cross as the nex...
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Minivan Chronicles: January 2011
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Monday, January 10, 2011. The status postings started around 10 pm last night. "Snow! Posted one friend. "A blizzard! Friend Y "made snow angels and had a snowball fight and ate snow cream! Friend Z "wiped out riding on a strip of aluminum siding from the neighbor's trailer." Friend Z resides in Alabama. Remember sneaking out your mother's cookie sheets and using them to rocket down the big hill? In the late aftern...
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Minivan Chronicles: July 2009
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Thursday, July 16, 2009. Just Because You Can. Name the last time you used the word “alacrity” in conversation, dear reader. How about “supercilious”? What about “staycation”? This makes me doubt the staying power of “staycation.”. No I prefer to see this doctoring of our words as short-sighted. Call it “Frankencabulary.”. Sunday, July 12, 2009. Remember family vacations of your youth? Husband and I, my sister and ...
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Minivan Chronicles: November 2009
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Saturday, November 21, 2009. Scroll down to "The Beads" to begin from the beginning of the NoLa trip. 8220;Wisconsin Trade Federation? 8221; I asked when Husband returned. 8220;He won’t play that song,” said my love. “He said he only plays that song with his other band.”. Okay, I said “What’s his other band? 8220;The Squirrel Nut Zippers,” he said. Oh, Percy, I thought. Glad you could join us. 8221; said Smooth....
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Minivan Chronicles: July 2011
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Saturday, July 30, 2011. 8220;There was a great hurry in the streets, of people speeding away to get shelter before the storm broke; the wonderful corner for echoes resounded with the echoes of footsteps coming and going, yet not a footstep was there. ‘A multitude of people, and yet a solitude! 8217; said Darney, when they had listened for a while.”. Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities. 8220;Why’s that? The blur ...
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Minivan Chronicles: August 2011
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Friday, August 26, 2011. Something was not quite right. Did the uncle/father's wife know the truth of the relationship between the boy and the uncle/father? Did she know the dead mother back in Afghanistan? The immigration agent bent over her papers to scrawl something in the block of white space across the bottom of the last page of neat legal type. As the automated Tube voice announced King's Cross as the nex...
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Minivan Chronicles: Snowbook
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Monday, January 10, 2011. The status postings started around 10 pm last night. "Snow! Posted one friend. "A blizzard! Friend Y "made snow angels and had a snowball fight and ate snow cream! Friend Z "wiped out riding on a strip of aluminum siding from the neighbor's trailer." Friend Z resides in Alabama. Remember sneaking out your mother's cookie sheets and using them to rocket down the big hill? In the late aftern...
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Minivan Chronicles: October 2009
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Saturday, October 31, 2009. Monday, October 26, 2009. A Legacy of Bailing. At some point someone ordered shots in flavors circa 1987. My dad passed along the message that he’d be asleep in the car. It was time to go home, but hey—I really enjoyed the evening. Or to go, try another night of social skills, and put on the push-up deal? They tried various angles. My sister, always the belle of the ball, thought I s...
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Minivan Chronicles: The Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower
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What you and I would discuss, dear reader, if we spent a day driving around town together. Thursday, August 4, 2011. The Broken Wall, the Burning Roof and Tower. About the London tourist’s visit to the Tower, Rick Steves nails it. Go straight for the jewels. It is nearly impossible to mentally connect the historical goings-on with contemporary morale-boosting media snippets about the family living down the lane. January 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM. Sounds like a rough day! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).