We had a whole ten days off, a fiftieth birthday to celebrate, a new telescope to try out, and a good grasp of Spanish. A map. No GPS, smart phone, or travel internet then.
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Kindness of Strangers
On the way to Toledo
To play the “Gas Station Game,” you began by taking turns choosing different brands of gas, the way you might pick players on a pickup baseball or touch-football team. He would pick first—that was just the rule—and he would always pick Standard,
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Fifty-Four Hours*
Excerpted from Rocked in Time, a work in progress.
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Fifteen Miles to 14A
It was a June night of thunderstorms in central New Jersey
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