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The first week of living somewhere new is roughly the same just about anywhere you (I) go.
Day one begins with the jarring realization that you have stopped somewhere long enough to put your bag down, and won’t be leaving for quite some time. Which is scary. This leads to the panicky feeling upon [...]

About fifteen minutes in to my drive up from Boston yesterday I realized that I was going to spend the two hour stretch between South Station and Lebanon in a state of relative solitude.
For the first time in a long time, I wasn’t on a bus. No one would be sitting behind me [...]

you know what that’s like?
its like closing up the Eggars storybook and feeling vaguely disappointed that the long one you read first didn’t include any steamy midnight scenes on the beach (even after reading patiently through ten pages of buildup) and then turning off the lamp and remembering that the one you liked, the one [...]

Peets Coffee & Tea. At five, this place was a noisy hive of caffeine addicts, shoving their way towards the front of a line that reached the door.
Just three hours later, the afternoon crowd has subsided. The whining two year olds in their neon safety suits are no longer clogging the doorway. The [...]

As always, Anna managed to wrangle a beautiful welcome out of New York.
Within three hours of landing at JFK, I was elbowing my way towards five figures bathed in bright blue light on a cramped little stage in downtown Brooklyn. Four of them were standing around a fifth, who was sitting in the middle, hunched [...]