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The wife broke her right ankle in a bicycling accident on Cape Cod. This week she got a hard cast.

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While browsing a bookstore in Hyannis, we came across this Cape Cod street atlas. On the cover is my iStockphoto of Nobska Lighthouse in Falmouth. Original image at iStockphoto:

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We haven’t been to the Cape since 2007, and we were feeling the desire to return. The Wife found a really nice lakeside cottage available to rent in our favorite town, Eastham. It was a little expensive, but we decided to splurge to have the chance to stay right on a lake (actually a kettle [...]

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During my recent Cape Cod trip, I got up around sunrise one morning to paddle Stage Harbor, which is in Chatham, in the “elbow” of Cape Cod. My reference for this paddle was AMC’s Discover Cape Cod book. I noticed one little error in the book: the paddle put-in for this trip is on the [...]

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There’s lots of craziness and lies being perpetrated by the right wing in this health care debate. But what’s got me amazed, more than anything, is how the mainstream media and Republican legislators (both backed by health care industry sponsorship) have convinced so many people that other countries which have nationalized health care systems (ie, [...]

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Son took a tennis class this summer.

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In January of 2008, the NY Daily News asked if they could run a photo I took, for their print edition. “It will probably run as a thumbnail,” the photo editor said. They offered me their standard rate, which was US$150. Last week, the Huffington Post asked if they could run a photo of mine [...]

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