In the Miami area, you never know when the mail is actually going to show up. When I lived in Manchester, New Hampshire, the mail carrier was promptly at the community mailboxes every day at 11:00 am. Here, we were surprised to find that mail delivery, like nearly everything else, does not run on a …
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The First Hurdle
I've heard more than one person say that taking some time off at the end of the semester is important. I acknolwedge the wisdom of this recommendation, but it is hard for me to conquer the feeling that I should be accomplishing something, literally, all the time. Last week, I visited my parents in …
Medievalist in the Making 