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The flight home

I was stressed about getting to the airport, but YP found out about the express bus and it was super easy. Getting through airport security was another story. I didn’t realize I had to take out ALL my...

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Writing Update: Nature Words, Boardwalk Empire, the Jersey Devil

Behind as usual. But at least I didn’t wait a whole year this time. The Case for Making Libraries Full of Toys and Games I wrote this piece for Quartz back in August. Researching the importance of play...

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Year-End Retrospects

I can’t believe it was only last year that MB and I broke up. True, we broke up in the beginning of 2013 and now 2014 is basically over so it’s more like two years, but it feels even longer than that,...

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Hiking, Softies, and Searching for Mr. Pointy

A couple of weeks ago, I had the chance to visit my college pal JM in Seattle, and in true blog fashion (at least this blog), I’m writing about it late. Right around this time last year, I went to...

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Obsessed: Stuff You Should Know

While I’ve been a longtime fan of This American Life, I’ve never really been into podcasts. I wasn’t against them, but I just never gave them much thought. Then came Serial, and everything changed. But...

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Rewatching ‘The Breakfast Club': Some Takeaways

I recently rewatched The Breakfast Club (purely for research, I swear). While it’ll always be my favorite John Hughes movie (Sixteen Candles has a bit too much broad humor for me and Pretty in Pink...

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Review: Gwendolyn, by Diana Souhami

Warning: lots of spoilers. First I want to admit I haven’t read George Eliot since high school. But I remember enjoying Silas Marner and Middlemarch so when I had the chance to read historian Diana...

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Beantown Birthday

This past week or so I’ve been on my annual east coast birthday trip. While I usually visit New York, this time I felt like doing something different, namely visiting my pal ES in Boston. Getting There...

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More ’80s Redux: ‘Tootsie’ and ‘The Sure Thing’

Ever since rewatching The Breakfast Club, I’ve been on an ’80s kick, at least where movies are concerned. So earlier this week at my parents’ house with Netflix for some reason not working on my iPad,...

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More ’80s Movies Redux: ‘Better off Dead’

For a few posts now I’ve mentioned wanting to watch Better Off Dead. The other night, I finally got my fix. But unlike The Sure Thing and The Breakfast Club, and like Pretty in Pink, the movie is much...

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Goodbye, San Francisco

I’ve been planning this for several months, and now it’s finally here: my time to go. Those of you who follow my blog (and know me in real life) know that I moved to San Francisco from New York back in...

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NYC adjustment

I’m settling into life back on the east coast. After a few days at my parents’ house (which was somehow both relaxing and stressful), I’ve moved into a share in Brooklyn. While I’m doing fine, there...

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Word nerdery, the Paris edition

A photo posted by actung9 (@actung9) on Aug 20, 2015 at 1:34pm PDT In case you didn’t know, I’m currently vacationing in Paris. My travel buddy, Yiannis, and I have been doing lots of Parisian stuff,...

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More French word nerdery

I’m back from Paris! Eventually I’ll go into detail about the stuff we did and saw, but right now here’s part two in Parisian word nerdery. (And here’s part one if you missed it.) An orange museum? One...

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Paris 2015: Museums are my crack

As you may know, I had the opportunity recently to spend almost 10 days in Paris. While I’ve recounted some French word nerdery, I’ve yet to write a lot about what we saw and did. I was going to write...

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Paris 2015: Amusement parks, or causing vertigo and bodily injury for all ages

Bonjour! If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been yakking a lot about Paris. First it was word nerdery, then museums. Today it’s amusement parks, of which three — count ‘em, three — we somehow managed to...

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Paris 2015: Not always a walk in le parc

In my last post I wrote about Parisian amusement parks. In this one I’ll discuss the regular parks we visited. Parcs, jardins, et bois — oh my! So what’s the difference between a parc, jardin, and...

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Paris 2015: Locks and luck

I’ve talked about French word nerdery, museums, amusement parks, and regular parks — and now, locks and luck. Lotsa locks Where we stayed wasn’t far from Canal Saint-Martin, which I didn’t even know...

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‘Kate & Allie’ go to Paris

My travel buddy Yiannis and I are both TV junkies so it was pretty much imperative that we had something to watch while we were in Paris. Because we were outside the U.S., we were limited in terms of...

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NYC Adventures: Gyms

Now that I’ve been back for almost two months, I’ve started to develop a new routine. I’ve found my go-to morning coffee spot, my favorite lunch places, and decent take-out. But not all of my routine...

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