The true meaning of Christmas is a Utah-themed game, bought at DI, shared among ex- Utah transplants.
The sumptuously decorated lobby of the Sofitel Manila, where we went for after work drinks last evening to celebrate the end of our training session.
November 20: Merry Christmas
I’ve said before that Brattleboro runs on a very well defined annual cycle, more obviously so than other, larger places I’ve lived. Sometimes I don’t notice all the changes immediately, like when I went online this spring and learned that other people nearby had seen hummingbirds a month before me.
The most pervasive annual cycle must surely be the retail cycle. And so it really wasn’t a big deal to see Costco fully prepped for Christmas when I stopped in on the way home from the airport. But then when I was hunting for a station in the NPR dead zone in Western Mass., I heard a full on Christmas station, and that really made it real. Christmas shopping season is upon us… maybe it’s already been on for weeks but I’m officially in the loop.
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 