In August of 2017 I bit my bottom lip while eating food, hard. Biting my lip isn’t typically a memorable experience since it happens every-so-often. This bite, however, was a bite that will live in infamy because it’s led to me having surgery twice. And that’s silly, because I’m not sure why it’s even possible …
Once Leah got her job in Greensboro we had to figure out where to live. After a fair amount of internet searching we came up with three possible abodes. The first was in a new apartment complex, but constructed in a way to cash in on the “old factory” vibes that are around the city. …
A Wrinkle in Time is weird. It’s been very popular since Madeleine L’Engle (giving the late Ursula K. Le Guin a run for the name-pronunciation money) wrote it in 1963. Very soon it will also come out as a big-budget film, and I’m excited for that. Oprah is in the film, and Oprah’s never made …
So how did a guy from Oregon and a gal from Boston get to North Carolina? Well, Leah and I both completed graduate school as 2016 ended. We started applying to jobs right away, and Leah got one in Greensboro. That’s the story, simple as pie. But how did we actually get here, as in …
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Concerning the last mini-post on snow, we ended up getting enough to shut down school for three days. Surprise! I measured at the mill and we had about six inches, which fits well with a map I found online. I’m going to call this eight in Oregon snow-inches, or twelve and a half in Massachusetts …
Tonight there’s a good chance of snow. School is cancelled for me, and Leah brought her stuff home just in case—not that things will get very white. In our short time in North Carolina I’ve observed two different reactions to snow closures. The first is incredulity: “Businesses shut down over a light dusting? Ridiculous!” The …
April 2017: Leah and I moved to North Carolina, a completely new state for both of us. She’s from the Boston area, or actually Duxbury, MA, to be specific. To those of us not from Massachusetts, Duxbury and Boston might seem like similar places (they’re 45 minutes apart). But trust me, they’re pretty different. Or …
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