October 4, 2008
Halfway through the trip, we had a day of rest. Nothing planned other than some much needed laundering. I don’t recall if we mentioned this, but we went the carry-on route for our luggage checking nothing. Ambitious, but completely worth it. Lucky for us, there was a laundromat very close to the hotel. We bundled [...]
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February 26, 2008
I just finished listening to an NPR Podcast narrated by Howard Dully. At the age of 12, Howard was the youngest person to receive an “icepick lobotomy”. He never spoke about his surgery with his father, or his step-mother who forced it onto him. Now, as an adult, he tries to understand what happened to [...]
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