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Summer Vacation

We leave for Michigan tomorrow morning. Going to spend a week at “family camp” on the shores of Lake Michigan. Then I’m back for two days and head off to Ireland with my birth family (parents + 7 siblings). Never been to Europe before, let alone the old sod.
So it will be some time before [...]

Culture Code

My earliest memory of the 4th of July is the annual street dance we used to have on the night before the fourth. Every house on our block had a yard party, and people wandered up and down the block freely. As a kid, the Ridge Avenue Street Dance meant garbage cans full of soda pop [...]