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Dispatches from Europe, Day 32: Budapest to Vienna
I woke up early this morning with a serious headache, likely due to dehydration incurred at the bathhouse. I never drink enough water when I swim. I also never get headaches, and until today, I will...
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Dispatches from Europe, Day 33: Best and Wurst of Vienna
I returned to the land of the living today around 3 p.m. Until then, I was in a fever fog, which is a funny state of mind and an achy state of body. But however off-kilter I was, I was no match for the...
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Dispatches from Europe, Day 34: Small World
Today, I stuffed myself silly with bratwurst and this ridiculous Viennese cake called fachertorte, which contains 3 different types of dense cake, apples, and marmalade, all encased in a thick, sweet...
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Dispatches from Europe, Day 35: Snapshots from Vienna
* The waiters in Vienna all wear holsters in addition to their aprons (and vests and bowties.) In these holsters they keep huge, black leather wallets with about 10 different pockets per wallet, in...
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Dispatches from Europe, Day 36: Magical Prague
Just kidding about the whole “this blog is OVER” thing. I have arrived at the hostel in Prague, and they have computers. Also present are the smells of post-Communist eastern Europe: pork, cabbage,...
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Dispatches from Europe, Day 37: Old Man and the Books
“When someone reaches his thirtieth year, there will be no end to his being called young. But he himself, even though he cannot detect any changes on his person, becomes uncertain; it seems to him as...
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Dispatches from Europe, Days 38-40: Awards Ceremony
I check out of the hostel in the morning at 10 a.m., about 4 hours after I am planning to go to sleep. (The jet-lag prevention program is on schedule so far, but I don’t know if I’ll make it to 6 a.m....
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Dispatches from Europe, via Golden, Colorado: Closure
I caught my flight from Prague to Paris without a hitch. My plane landed at Charles de Gaulle on the north side of the city on time, just after 10 p.m. I had decided at the last minute, just before...
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The Chalk Line
At the end of a long day at school today, I went for a run. I chose the paved trail along the creek in Tucker Gulch, near my house. The darkness in the sky is coming on fast and heavy now that we are...
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For all of you out there getting ready to start the new school year, here’s a little bit of poetic courage for you, inspired by our most recent trip to NYC for the Montessori Model United Nations...
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