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Spring migration has hit NYC hard, like a horde of bloodthirsty barbarians rampaging across the boroughs, except that the...

Some of you may have noticed that politics hasn’t been a very welcome topic on this blog since early...

Another year, another Mikemas. We spent the weekend celebrating my 36th birthday, which was Saturday. The festivities included brunch...

Sara and I awoke to a gray, drizzling Easter morning determined to cram as much sightseeing as possible in...

Bainbridge Island is just a short ferry ride across the Puget Sound from downtown Seattle. Though the island, considered...

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Sara and I have both jointly and independently criss-crossed this majestic country of ours, but neither of us had...